P&P post 6

Although this post does not subsist as any form of plot analysis, I thought it time to be adressed. Throughout this book, (and I've noticed it in Jane Eyre as well) dashes are used in mysterious places. In both pride and prejudice, there are mentions of a "---Shire". In tonight's reading, there was mention of "Lord---", the father of Colonel Fitzwilliam. At first I thought these words held a pretense of being specific to the english language at the time. However, I began to wonder if there was any more to these impertinent dashes that haunt my reading every few nights. So, in accordance with today's method of research, I set to googling. And I found nothing. Not even a Wikipedia page. I suppose the internet has failed to measure up to Jane Austen's classic. There's probably a metaphor here, somewhere.