根据以下段落，修改动词时态。


It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However, little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
It was a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune was in want of a wife. However, little known the feelings or views of such a man might be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth was so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he was considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.