The Bennets were speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run way, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 55. After Jane’s engagement to Bingley is announced, the Bennets are seen as the luckiest family in the world. But after the good news, bad news is about to comes knocking at their front door once more – in the shape of Lady Catherine de Bourgh gunning for Elizabeth.