fast-succeeding

Updated: May 5, 2025

Society warns me to make a creditable match, upon penalty, if I decline, of being pointed out to the succeeding and a fast-succeeding generation it is! as a disappointed old maid passée belle, who squandered her capital of fascinations, and has become a pauper upon public toleration, while my mother, sisters, and brothers are growing impatient at my many and profitless flirtations, and anxious to see me 'settled. My mother's pet text, since I was sixteen, has been her prayerful desire that I, the last of her nestlings, should make choice of a tenable bough and helpful partner, and set up a separate establishment before she dies.

Marion Harland - At Last