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Now listen to the play-bill." MR. PIPE-HEAD, a father. MR. WAISTCOAT, a lover. MISS GLOVE, a daughter. MR. DE BOOTS, a suitor. "And now we're going to begin. The curtain rises. We have no curtain, so it has risen already. All the characters are there, and so we have them at hand. Now I speak as Papa Pipe-head! He's angry to-day. One can see that he's a colored meerschaum.
"I believe I understand you, sir; you mean me to infer that Mr. Drewett is a suitor for Miss Hardinge's hand." "It would be improper to say this much, even to you, Miles, did not Drewett take good care, himself, to let everybody know it." "Possibly with a view to keep off other pretenders" I rejoined, with a bitterness I could not control. Now, Mr.
Well, Mistress Nellie, it may be as he says, but surely it is for your father to inquire into that, when the gentleman comes forward in due course and presents himself as a suitor. Fine feathers do not always make fine birds, and a man may ruffle it at King Charles's Court without ten guineas to shake in his purse."
John; in the second, he is going away in a few days, perhaps tomorrow, and may never cross her path again. The thought of him will prevent her fancy from straying for a time, and keep her heart whole until you decide on a suitor for her hand." "Nevertheless, I would rather that it had not been so.
If one did pause while it was uttered, the body jerked, and the head turned this way and that, as though he really was too restless to be perfectly quiet for a moment. The most tempestuous times were when the younger suitor put himself forward and persuaded the fair yellow damsel to show him some slight preference.
There was doubtless in her mind considerable confusion on the subject, for she did not know whether Lord Chiltern or Mr. Finn was the suitor whom she most feared, and she was aware, after a sort of muddled fashion, that the claims of these two wicked young men were antagonistic to each other.
But there are still many old-fashioned people who arrogate to themselves the right of settling their daughters' lives, who have so trained them that resistance to family wishes becomes almost an impossibility. A good suitor presents himself, parental pressure is brought to bear and the deed is done. Witness the case of Alex. In a few years she probably would have chosen for herself, wisely.
As the two men walked away, Asaph thought that he was not acting an unfraternal part toward Marietta, for it would not be necessary for him to say or do anything to induce her to refuse so unsuitable a suitor as Thomas Rooper.
Miss Moreland stopped as if turned to stone. She was conscious at first of but one thing he had not expected to find her there. He had not come to seek her. Then, for what? A sudden flash illumined her ignorance, and behind it she grasped at the vague accusation her other suitor had tried to make to her unwilling ears. Her outstretched hands fell to her sides.
"But say at least, Clementina, that I have no rival. There is no other more favored suitor?" "That is so like a man and yet so unlike the proud one I believed you to be. Why should a man like you even consider such a possibility? If I were a man I know I couldn't."
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