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"Yes, and the greatest scoundrel that ever lived a miserable fortune-hunter, trying to inveigle my ward into a marriage. I came here barely in time to save her. And the only object the infernal scoundrel has now in sneaking after me is to try and get hold of her and get her from me. But he'll find he's got pretty tough work before him. He's got me to deal with this time."
'If you were so dull a fortune-hunter that you deceived yourself, or if you were so greedy and grasping that you were over-willing to be deceived by appearances, is it my fault, you adventurer? the lady demands, with great asperity. 'I asked Veneering, and he told me you were rich. 'Veneering! with great contempt. And what does Veneering know about me! 'Was he not your trustee? 'No.
"Indeed Ma'am I have no such intention " "Who ever heard a young Lady own that she was a Fortune-hunter?" Miss Greville laughed but I am sure Ellen felt for me. "Was your Mother gone to bed before you left her?" said her Ladyship. "Dear Ma'am, said Ellen it is but nine o'clock." "True Ellen, but Candles cost money, and Mrs Williams is too wise to be extravagant."
'Catch her, Jorian; you are on guard. 'Upwards of three hundred thousand, if a penny, Roy Richmond! Who? I? I am not a fortune-hunter. 'Nor am I, friend Jorian. 'No, it 's because you're not thorough: you 'll fall between the stools. My father remarked that he should visit this upon Mr. Alphonse.
He, with a wealth which would have seemed to her as the treasure of the Incas, was falling under suspicion as a lazy fortune-hunter, seeking haven in the meager opulence of a mountain farm! Yet he dared not confess that wealth now because such admission would stamp him an impostor. "I reckon," he said generously, though with just a touch of hurt pride. "I kin live down that distrust.
"Cannon it was, Mr. Swift," said Mr. Damon. "Tom has an idea that he can make the biggest cannon in the world; but it's only an idea yet." "Well, then I guess there's no hope of my interesting him in my opal mine," said the fortune-hunter, with rather a disappointed smile. "Nor you either, Mr. Swift." "No, Alec, I'm afraid not.
"Moderation!" retorted the self-reliant wife "moderation towards a weak-minded, unscrupulous fortune-hunter and match-maker a despiser of those genuine graces which adorn the female mind and make woman what she should be. Don't talk thus to me, William, else I shall feel that you would abet Matilda in what she has undertaken, and what she may evidently accomplish." "God forbid," said Mr.
"Why is it impossible?" "Because " "Because what?" an audacious voice whispered. Why should he not? He stilled the voice but it refused to be silent was obdurate, insistent, like Mary Ann herself. "Because oh, because of a hundred things," he told it. "Because she is no fit mate for me because she would degrade me, make me ridiculous an unfortunate fortune-hunter, the butt of the witlings.
Though he was not a fortune-hunter, the possibility that Lucetta had been sublimed into a lady of means by some munificent testament on the part of this relative lent a charm to her image which it might not otherwise have acquired. He was getting on towards the dead level of middle age, when material things increasingly possess the mind. But Henchard was not left long in suspense.
He did not fill in the picture but I did for him with the charmingly domesticated wife well connected: the typical "nice English Girl," heiress of a comfortable fortune to supplement his own, which he candidly admitted needs supplementing. Of course he's not a mere vulgar fortune-hunter. He must be genuinely in love with the nice English Girl. And that's where I upset HIS apple-cart.
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