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I am a single woman, unsettled as yet, for whom this author in his infinite wisdom deems it necessary to provide a lover and husband; and in order that his narrative of how I get this person he has selected without consulting my tastes may interest a lot of other girls, who are expected to buy and read his book, he makes me the object of an intriguing fortune-hunter from Italy.
"You are only a paltry fortune-hunter, John Derringham, for all your fine talk," she said loudly, raising her voice, and allowing it to regain its original broad accent, "and I have kept you on just to punish you.
With us Austrians, for example, birth counts for almost everything, for infinitely more than money." "I think," said John, as one impersonally generalizing, "that a fortune-hunter with a tuft is the least admirable variety of that animal. I wish you could see what beautiful little rose-white ears she has, and the lovely way in which her dark hair droops about them."
"I am disposed just at present, I can assure you, dear Aunt, to have a particularly poor opinion of a mere fortune-hunter." "Yes; you do not seem to feel very amiably towards the class, just now," said Miss Agnes, smiling. "But who is the individual who stands so low in your opinion?" "It is your opinion, and not mine, which is the important one," replied Miss Agnes.
Miss Merton herself is a shrewd, worldly girl; and if she were of our sex would make a capital fortune-hunter. Don't think my fear is selfish; I do not speak for myself. If I were Evelyn's brother, I should be yet more earnest in my remonstrance." "But, Lord Vargrave, poor Evelyn is dull here; my spirits infect hers.
But the thirty-thousand pounds, you know " "Very true: But who would have ever dreamed of your turning fortune-hunter?" "No body had more need on't than I." "Not handsome, but rich: and so, I suppose you will soon learn to sing the old ballad "Her golden charms so sweetly shine, While rising to my raptured view; That I would rather call them mine, Than any girl I ever knew!"
"Thank you, though I should have very little use it. And that reminds me to explain something. The day I made my will was, by an odd chance, the day you arrived here. Had I know you then, I should have named you in it, leaving you I may as well tell you the sum a thousand pounds, in token of cousinly regard." "You are exceedingly kind, but I am no fortune-hunter." "I know that.
Lady Grace simpered a little, and opened her novel. "It really wouldn't surprise me to find that she is a born fortune-hunter," she said. "I am certain the mother is avaricious." "The mother," said Colonel de Vigne with the deliberation of one arrived at an unalterable decision, "is the most disagreeable, vulgar, and wholly objectionable person that I have ever met." "Oh, quite," said Lady Grace.
It was a man's voice, and its tones were angry. "No! no!" the man was saying; "I'll agree to no such nonsense, I tell you! What do you think I am?" "I think you are a jackass-fool," Miss Stapylton said, crisply, "and a fortune-hunter, and a sot, and a travesty, and a whole heap of other things I haven't, as yet had time to look up in the dictionary.
And now I recollect that my uncle must have paid his last visit to Edinburgh just before he made his will; and there he would see this young man filling his place in the world so well, while I was behaving so foolishly. The contrast must have struck him, and he certainly has put an end to everything between Mr. Dalzell and myself." "Oh, Jane, he is no fortune-hunter; this will make no change.
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