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Updated: May 27, 2025

There is one type of girl, with whom even the most modest and most moderately eligible of bachelors must be familiar in England, who is seldom in evidence in the United States she whom the American aborigines might call the "Girl-Anxious-to-be-Married." What right-minded man in any circle of British society has not shuddered at the open pursuit of young Croesus?

James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead - The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin