"He is now gone into the army," she added; "but I am afraid he has turned out very wild."
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 43. Mrs. Reynolds says this to Mrs. Gardiner about George Wickham. The Pemberley housekeeper tells Elizabeth and her party that Wickham was the son of her late master’s steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense. Wickham’s "very wild" description could be said to foreshadow the nightmare he will turn out to be for the Bennet family, when he runs away with one of the Bennet daughters.