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What I now tell thee is beyond thy young understanding: thou hast but to shape thy will to my bidding: it is for me to launch thy vessel on its voyage, the Gods will help thy riper judgment to steer its course! The time has come when thou must wed! I have chosen for thee a suitor, the chief to whom all thy countrymen bend the knee.
But, if the letter were in a plain envelope, sealed, and she should leave it on his dresser, he would be very sure to open it, if he saw it lying there, and then Miriam smiled. Constance would be paid at last for her theft of another woman's suitor, for her faithlessness and her cowardly desertion.
"So cruelly confident are you cold Dianas," he was saying. "Now, even a Penelope must hold out the lure of her web to an old suitor, but you Dianas " Alexina laughed.
The next few days were taken up with the embarrassed adjustment of their new relation to Mr. Ramy and to each other. Ann Eliza's ardour carried her to new heights of self-effacement, and she invented late duties in the shop in order to leave Evelina and her suitor longer alone in the back room.
Commonplace suitors held back in fear. Xavier Rabourdin, without parents and without fortune other than his situation under government, was proposed to Celestine by her father. She resisted for a long time; not that she had any personal objection to her suitor, who was young, handsome, and much in love, but she shrank from the plain name of Madame Rabourdin.
Vane, as it happened, had met Kitty Blake by accident and had asked her to accompany him on a visit to Celia. Evelyn did not think she was of a jealous disposition, and jealousy appeared irrational in the case of a man whom she had dismissed as a suitor; but the thing undoubtedly rankled in her mind. While she was considering it, Jessy Horsfield entered the room.
and although I admit the description applies in the first instance to milkmaids, yet there is a fair share of national character in the Carnegies." "Do you really think that Kate is in . . . has, well, a, eh, tenderness to Carmichael? it would never have occurred to me." "How would you look on Carmichael as a suitor?"
"Why, yes." "I met him last night! He cried those words to me again. The insolent rascal! I'll make him pay for it." "In truth you've a reckoning to settle with him." "But how does he come into this matter?" "Insolent still, he's a suitor for Mistress Quinton's hand." Fontelles gave a scornful shrug of his shoulders; Carford, smiling and more at ease, watched him.
Not a word was spoken against the suitor who had on that day returned to London with a full conviction that now at least he was relieved from his engagement. 'Patty, my darling child, he said, 'may God grant that it be for the best! 'It is for the best, she answered stoutly. 'For this place I am fit; and I much doubt whether I am fit for any other.
Mothers of families, dowagers who had granddaughters to establish, young girls jealous of Natalie, whose elegance and tyrannical beauty annoyed them, took pains to envenom this opinion with treacherous remarks. When they heard a possible suitor say with ecstatic admiration, as Natalie entered a ball-room, "Heavens, how beautiful she is!" "Yes," the mammas would answer, "but expensive."
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