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You must remember that I am only in furnished apartments; that you are well connected, and that I should not like to be regarded as a fortune-hunter." "You know that my intended husband will soon arrive?" "Yes, I will take care of that." "When he does come, you know, matters will be pushed on rapidly."
She had been unable to see that at the time. Good women were narrow, and they were hard, and they did not understand men. Those were their faults. Had she learned better by now? Did she realize that she had far better marry a man who had loved her for herself, and who still loved her, rather than some fortune-hunter, like that weedy fellow Scarlett.
And, Margaret-like, she has quite forgotten that what happened four years ago was all caused by her having flirted outrageously with Teddy Anstruther, in order to see what Billy would do. The twelve forty-five, for a wonder, was on time; and there descended from it a big, blond young man, who did not look in the least like a fortune-hunter. Miss Hugonin resented this.
"Yes; for you have the reputation of being a rich man, and it can't be all a bubble, or you wouldn't buy eighty-pound presents for gratitude, and rather premature gratitude at that." "Ah! the gift hasn't been made yet." "I fancy it will be made. And the principle is the same. You can't be a fortune-hunter, like many agreeable, titled countrymen of yours whom I have met."
The two young men Ned Newton being Tom's special chum were talking together over Tom's latest scheme. It was several days after Tom's accident in the airship, when he had been saved by the prompt action of Mr. Peterson. That fortune-hunter, once he had the promise of Mr.
"Devil English devil!" he said laconically, and continued on his way. Nicholson's lips tightened. His own words came back to him with a new significance: "In a strange country no one is an exception." This Travers, this one unscrupulous fortune-hunter, heedless of everything save his own advancement, had branded them all.
The man was as good as gold at heart. Jean called him a cad, but the caddishness was only skin deep. Mr. Perry watched her, reading her thoughts more keenly than she guessed. "One thing I will say in justice to myself," he said. "You are a rich woman. If you marry me, YOU will know, if nobody else does, that I am no fortune-hunter. I shall always be independent of my wife.
"Not even when her father considers the commercial value of such an alliance for his daughter?" retorted the earl, shaking his finger in Terwilliger's face. Terwilliger turned pale. The picture painted by the earl was terribly alluring. He hesitated. He was lost. "Mugley," he whispered, hoarsely "Mugley, I have wronged you. I thought you were a fortune-hunter. I see you love her.
At length he learned that Lord Vargrave had been refused, that Evelyn was free; and within a few days from that intelligence, the admiral was seized with apoplexy; and Legard suddenly found himself possessed, if not of wealth, at least of a competence sufficient to redeem his character as a suitor from the suspicion attached to a fortune-hunter and adventurer.
Gregory Hall was evidently greatly disturbed at the new situation brought about by the disappearance of Mr. Crawford's will. But apparently the main reason for his disturbance was the impending poverty of his fiancee. There was no doubt that Mr. Carstairs and others who had called this man a fortune-hunter had judged him rightly.
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