2nd time around: I got the humor that was completely over my head the first time I read this. I was 22 the first time, so I guess I was a blockhead AND I have matured so much in my reading comprehension. Not sure what I was doing back then?

It was also fun to recognize that Jane Austen basically recycles her male characters in all her books. I hadn't really noticed that before (again, dense as a brick). She had a formula that worked and stuck with it.