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But," he said aloud, "what else can you do with her? There's that beautiful girl Bathilde de Chargeboeuf, noble and well-connected, reduced to single-blessedness, nobody will have her. Pierrette has nothing, and she'll never marry. As for beauty, what is it?

In a land where many men live alone in shacks and do their own work, and where any woman's husband must be able to go forth with a frying-pan and shift for himself at times, it was no marvel to see Jonas Hicks doing the same; though, to be sure, he was doing it a little nearer town than is customary, and this proximity made his single-blessedness shine out a little plainer.

I can't say that we were envious of Shelby because of his single-blessedness he was only twenty-two at that time; but it hurt us to know that he didn't really have to work in Herald Square, and that he had neat bachelor quarters down in Gramercy Park, and a respectable club or two, and week-ended almost where he chose.

You may thank me that Geoff isn't at this moment wedded to some stiff-necked British maiden, and you eating your head off in single-blessedness at Burnet." "Rubbish!" said Clover. "Neither of us is capable of it;" but Mrs. Hope stuck to her convictions.

"But," said Olive, who could scarcely help laughing, "there was a good reason then for my being so sensible, and that reason no longer exists. I can now afford single-blessedness." "No, Olive, dear, you can not. Circumstances are all against that consummation. You are not made for that sort of thing. And your uncle is an old man, and even with him you need a young protector.

It never struck them which was actually the case that she had been incapable of loving once; and that her single-blessedness was due to no unforgotten love-story, but to the unromantic fact that among her score of lovers she had never found a man for whom she seriously cared.

You should be a centipede, Hal, instead of that forlorn biped, a bachelor. By the way, speaking of single-blessedness, how it must harrow you, my boy, to witness diurnally the bliss of the bride and bridegroom who sit opposite you here at table! Favor them with Lamb's 'Complaint against Married People, will you? and send me the bill." "Bride and bridegroom? Well, that is rich!

Her grandmother would never consent to their marriage, she knew the "Stars and Stripes" had decided that matter, even though there were no Arthur Carrollton across the sea, and Maggie sighed despondingly as she thought of the long years of single-blessedness in store for her. "There is but one alternative left, then," said Henry.

But," he said aloud, "what else can you do with her? There's that beautiful girl Bathilde de Chargeboeuf, noble and well-connected, reduced to single-blessedness, nobody will have her. Pierrette has nothing, and she'll never marry. As for beauty, what is it?

"When we take to cats," she said, rising. "Spinsterhood" we like to call it. 'Single-blessedness!" "That is your kind heart. You decline to make one of us happy to the despair of all the rest." She laughed at this, though with no very genuine mirth, I marked, and let my 1830 attempt at gallantry pass without other retort. "You seemed interested in the old place yonder." She indicated Mr.