Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way

There was not one lord in the neighbourhood; nonot even a baronet. There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their doornot one young man whose origin was unknown. Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her.