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Updated: June 24, 2025
And one of my chief concerns, one of my first duties, is, of course, to see that she makes a good marriage. She is a great heiress she would be the natural prey of fortune-hunters. I must protect her, I must direct her. With one hand I must keep away undesirable suitors, with the other hand I must catch a desirable one. But now observe my perplexities. Your cousin is peculiar.
She might also have consider'd the sullied Linnen growing white in her pretty red Hands, as an Emblem of her Soul, were it well scoured by Repentance for the Sins of her Youth: But she rather chooses starving by writing Novels of Intrigue, to teach young Heiresses the Art of running away with Fortune-hunters, and scandalizing Persons of the highest Worth and Distinction."
We have" with a quiet smile and an upward turn of his extended palm "a right to protect them from the attack of interlopers, even if we have to use gunpowder. I do not propose to abridge the liberties of even this army of fortune-hunters. Let them think." He half laughed. "Who cares whether they share our opinions or not? Let them have their own. I had rather they would.
My own reading of it is that it was a clever evasion of his son-in-law's attempts to make sure of his share of the inheritance. We have seen how shifty Defoe was in the original bargaining about his daughter's portion, and we know from his novels what his views were about fortune-hunters, and with what delight he dwelt upon the arts of outwitting them.
It was a sum which was sure to attract fortune-hunters; and how could he tell whether Nan would not accept her first offer, and then stick to an unsuitable engagement with all the obstinacy which she was capable of displaying? Nan sometimes made odd friends, and would not give them up at anybody's bidding. How about the man she married?
Rakes, ruffians, bullies, parasites, fortune-hunters, adventurers, women who sell themselves, and men who cheat and cringe, pass before us in one incessant procession, crushing the weak, and making fools of the good. Such, says our author, is the way of Vanity Fair which we are warned to loathe and to shun.
Bright remarks in his 'History of England, 'it has been believed that its value and wealth were not thoroughly known or appreciated by the Ministry at the time. It has now become by far the most important of the Dutch dependencies, and the favourite colony for fortune-hunters.
Ah! it is fine to be Claudia Merlin is it not, Ishmael?" "Very," answered the young man, scarcely conscious amid the whirl of his emotions what he was saying. "And what a sensation her entrée into society will make! I should like to be in Washington next winter when she comes out. Ah, but after all what a target for fortune-hunters she will be, to be sure!" sighed Bee.
To keep Clara out of the hands of fortune-hunters, but ostensibly to enable her to pass her first mourning in decent retirement, he had induced her to settle in one of Muñoz's haciendas, a few miles from the city, where he of course had her much to himself.
They camped five miles beyond Miner's Rest on the second night, preferring the comparative solitude of the Bush to the scant accommodation and some what boisterous company at the shanty lately established to cater for the fortune-hunters streaming to the new rushes. Mike selected the spot and dropped his swag. 'We've tramped far enough to-day, he said.
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