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For if he were the cold, calculating man her father had believed him to be, and had represented him as being to her, would he care for a portionless widow in humble circumstances like Mrs Denbigh; no money, no connexion, encumbered with her boy? The very action which proved Mr Farquhar to be lost to Jemima reinstated him on his throne in her fancy.
Her father, Sir John Durham, was a large landowner in the western division of the county; a pompous gentleman, the picture of a father-in-law for Willoughby. The father of Miss Dale was a battered army surgeon from India, tenant of one of Sir Willoughby's cottages bordering Patterne Park. His girl was portionless and a poetess.
His marriage had taken place without the sanction or rather in defiance of the wishes of his parents, for his wife was portionless, and in a station a few grades, as they considered, below his own; moreover, Frank himself was not of age. Private income, independent of his parents, he had none.
'Well, it would be very sweet if they were to meet next season and fall in love with each other, said Lady Kirkbank. 'He is enormously rich, and I daresay your girls will not be portionless. 'Lesbia may take a modest place among heiresses, answered Lady Maulevrier. 'I have lived so quietly during the last forty years that I could hardly help saving money. 'How nice! sighed Georgie.
A single trait suffices to prove the lady's attractiveness the avaricious John Churchill wooed and wedded her although all along he knew Sarah to be altogether portionless. This successful wooer afterwards Lord Churchill and Duke of Marlborough who had entered the army at sixteen, was the son of a poor cavalier knight who had come to London after the Restoration.
Could she have been seized by mistake for some heiress? In that moment's hope she asked, "Sir, do you know who I am Anne Woodford, a poor, portionless maid, not " "I know perfectly well, madam," was the reply. "May I trouble you to permit me to mount you again?"
But the year of Darrell's probation was nearly expired; all delay would be dangerous all explanations would be fatal, and must be forestalled. Nor could a long courtship be kept secret; Darrell might hear of it, and come over at once; and the Marquess's ambitious kinsfolk would not fail to interfere if the news of his intended marriage with a portionless cousin reached their ears.
When the house and furniture were at last offered for sale, the feeling was somewhat revived; and Mary, whose beauty, exquisite as it was, had so unobtrusive a character as never to have created a foe, was remembered with tears by many: even the father of her old lover, when he was congratulated by one more worldly-minded than himself on the escape of his son in not marrying a portionless girl, reproved the unfeeling speaker with a wish that he only hoped his son might have as good a wife as Mary Adams would have been.
Not a month in that long file of the "Morning Post" but what Lady Castleton shone forth from the rest of womankind, "Velut inter ignes Luna minores." The blood mounted to my cheek. Was it to this splendid constellation in the patrician heaven that my obscure, portionless youth had dared to lift its presumptuous eyes? But what is this?
Oh, believe me, it is, it must be very painful to be wealthy, to have to suspect and doubt to run the hazard of wounding some noble nature, who may be by chance among the sordid crowd who come to kneel to her because she is an heiress who would turn their backs upon her were she portionless. Indeed, we should excuse much." "Yes," said Mowbray, "and you defend the cause of heiresses well.
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