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Updated: May 13, 2025
To tell you the truth, I, for one, am tired of this heiress-hunting, and a man may spend a fortune in the chase before he can win one." "You despair then, positively, of the widow you have courted so long?" asked Tomlinson.
To tell you the truth, I, for one, am tired of this heiress-hunting, and a man may spend a fortune in the chase before he can win one." "You despair then, positively, of the widow you have courted so long?" asked Tomlinson.
Heiress-hunting, indeed, is well known, but this can scarcely be considered a form of wife-hunting, for it is not the woman who is the object of pursuit, but her money-bags. We have the word heiress-hunting for the very obvious reason that heiresses are recognised game. The word husband-hunting exists for the same reason.
But for her presence in his life he would probably have gone heiress-hunting with the least possible delay. As it was, his growing determination to win her, together with his advocacy of the Damesley workers amply sufficed, during the days that followed his evening talk with Lady Selina, to maintain his own illusions about himself and so to keep up the zest of life.
"For that matter, you have all been canny enough to have means enough to balance all that barren moorland. You are a richer man than I shall ever be." "Without heiress-hunting?" said Alick, as though weighing his words. "Come, Alick, you need not put on a mask that does not fit you!
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