In fact,that's why I was tempted to join the regiment.I'd heard that Meryton society is most agreeable.Society,I confess,is necessary to me.I have been a disappointed man, you see.I did not intend to join the army at all.The Church ought to have been my profession,and I should at this moment have a comfortable income as a Derbyshire rector,if the gentle- man we were speaking of just now had wished it.’
Indeed