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Tho' certainly nothing could to any reasonable Being, have appeared more satisfactory, than so gratefull a reply to her invitation, yet I know not how it was, but she was certainly capricious enough to be displeased with our behaviour and in a few weeks after, either to revenge our Conduct, or releive her own solitude, married a young and illiterate Fortune-hunter.
"It is not necessarily significant, of course; Lord Lashmore in all probability will outlive Ferrara, who looked even more pallid than usual." "You regard him as an utterly unscrupulous fortune-hunter?" "Certainly." "Did Lady Lashmore appear to be in good health?" "Perfectly." "Ah!" A silence fell, of some considerable duration, then: "Antony Ferrara is a menace to society," said Robert Cairn.
"Ah!" cried the old man fiercely, under his breath "a fortune-hunter, on my life! the danger is nearer than I had even apprehended!" "No, father, no! He is as far as possible from being what you say!" fervently exclaimed Sybil. "He is wealthy, then?" "No, no, no! he is poor in everything but in goodness and wisdom!" "Oh, no doubt you think him rich in these! But who is he, unhappy child?
The girl arose to her feet, and with much apparent reluctance, replied: "They said, mademoiselle of course, it was only gossip that he was very much of a fortune-hunter, and that he was engaged to some woman much older than himself, who was immensely rich." Miss Arthur sat down and looked hard at her maid. "How do you know that Mr. Percy is that man?" "Oh! I don't know, my lady mademoiselle.
His regrets were so disgustingly selfish, his invectives against the innocent cause of his disappointment so violent and unmerited, that I should have left him to his fate and his own devices, had I not thought that my so doing would make matters worse for the poor girl who had thus heedlessly linked herself to a fortune-hunter.
Do you hear me? I hate you. What do I care if you are a snob, and a cad, and a fortune-hunter, and a forger, and well, I don't care! Perhaps you haven't ever forged anything yet, but I'm quite sure you would if you ever got an opportunity. You'd be delighted to do it. Yes, you would you're just the sort of man who revels in crime. I love you! Why, that's the best joke I've heard for a long time.
"Yes." Latimer smoothed the soft silk rug that lay over him. "Poverty and that sort of versatility are often bedfellows, eh?... Tell me, Mr. Moriway, these lost diamonds are yours?" "No. They belong to a a friend of mine, Mrs. Kingdon." "Oh! the old lady who was married this afternoon to a young fortune-hunter!" I couldn't resist it. Moriway jumped out of his seat.
Much more did the skilful uncle write, but all to the same purpose, and for the furtherance of the same design. His letter to his brother was not less artful. He told him at once that Lucy's preference of the suit of a handsome fortune-hunter was the public talk, and besought him to lose not a moment in quelling the rumour.
There was, therefore, every probability that she would, if she found an opportunity, run away, as she stated to me she would, and it was ten chances to one that in so doing she would make an unfortunate match, either becoming the prey of some fortune-hunter, or connecting herself with some thoughtless young man. Could she do better than marry Mr Selwyn? Certainly not.
The machinery of government has by this time so thoroughly fortified itself against society, that the chief of the "Society of December 10" is thought good enough to be at its head; a fortune-hunter, run in from abroad, is raised on its shield by a drunken soldiery, bought by himself with liquor and sausages, and whom he is forced ever again to throw sops to.
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