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Updated: May 2, 2025

"Fear not," said Sholto, "you have all of her favour you need without working by means of another's petticoat. But how about marrying? You cannot wed or woo if you are a clerk. You did not use to be so unfond of a lass in the gloamings along the sweet strand called the Walk of Lovers you know where!" "Pshaw," cried Laurence, "I never yet saw the lass I liked better than myself.

S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett - The Black Douglas

"You are not, I hope, neglecting, Charles, to work the harbour at spring-tides; and see that you pay the greatest attention to get the well so as to supply the keeper with water, for he is a very helpless fellow, and so unfond of hard work that I fear he could do ill to keep himself in water by going to the other side for it." "With regard to spirits, Charles, I see very little occasion for it."

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16

But oh! to see them on the street together; to see him coming home on his furloughs I am sure I could not be but unfond of her then! I mind once I wished her dead, that maybe he might he might see something in me still. That was when Nan was born and " "What," cried Gilian, "and was he Nan's father? I I did not know." She turned upon him an old face spoiled by the memories of the moment.

Neil Munro - Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

'You are not, I hope, neglecting, Charles, to work the harbour at spring-tides; and see that you pay the greatest attention to get the well so as to supply the keeper with water, for he is a very helpless fellow, and so unfond of hard work that I fear he could do ill to keep himself in water by going to the other side for it. 'With regard to spirits, Charles, I see very little occasion for it. These abrupt apostrophes sound to me like the voice of an awakened conscience; but they would seem to have reverberated in vain in the ears of Charles.

Robert Louis Stevenson - Records of a Family of Engineers

I remember saying something of the sort to you years ago and at this table, when as it happened you also took in her ladyship. Only there was George in the wind then; now it has carried him away." Without deigning any reply I seized my glass and went to sit down between the canon and the Bull of Bashan. Mr. Atterby-Smith proved on acquaintance to be even worse than unfond fancy painted him.

Henry Rider Haggard - The Ancient Allan