The most common interpretation is that she would not have married him if he were poor. But the idea that "true love" would have triumphed is not far behind.
My fav interpretation arrives via Rachel Brownstein—who argues that Austen's ironical way of depicting Elizabeth suggests she is simultaneously a proto-feminist and a fairy-tale crown-chasing heroine and leaves it to the reader to sort out in their our mind.
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