You like Mr. Elton, papa,--I must look about for a wife for him.
I think very well of Mr. Elton, and this is the only way I have of doing him a service."
Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and by Mr. Elton, a young man living alone without liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse's drawing-room, and the smiles of his lovely daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.