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Updated: May 20, 2025
What a fool I had been to ask for long leave and come ashore like this, to curry favour with a set of stubborn dunderheads who cared nothing for me or Polly, and could not or would not understand how important it was to the best interests of the Service that I should get that promotion which alone would send me back to her an eligible wooer!
However, there is no going by that: compliments sink: and within forty-eight hours the able mechanic had become a hot wooer of Peggy Black, always on the look-out for her day and night, and telling her all about the lump of money he had saved, and how he could double his income, if he had but a counter, and tidy wife behind it.
O'Brallaghan clenches his hands with threatening vehemence, and brushing by the concealed Jinks, who makes himself as small as possible, disappears, muttering vengeance. Mr. Jinks is happy, radiant, triumphant, and as he watches the retreating wooer, his frame shakes with sombre merriment. Then he turns toward the window, and laughs with cautious dignity.
So when the stone block had swung, she drew away with a sigh, and we went on without further speech. "May the High Gods treat you tenderly," I said, when we came to the door of her bed-chamber. "I am my own God," said she, "in all things but one. By my face! you are a tardy wooer, Deucalion. Where do you go now?" "To my own chamber." "Oh, go then, go." "Is there anything more I could do?"
Amongst other places, he came to a farm-house, where the household were little better than beggars; but when the wooer came in, they wanted to make out that they were well to do, as you may guess. Now the husband had got a new arm to his coat. 'Pray, take a seat', he said to the wooer; 'but there's a shocking dust in the house.
And having thus squarely faced the question in cool blood and decided it, she will henceforth, probably, meet that wooer with a tunic of steel enclosing her breast. "Love must be revealed by acts and not betrayed by words. I regard as abnormal the extraordinary method of a hasty avowal beforehand; for that represents not the direct but the reflex path of transmission.
"I protest I have no head for charades," said Count Victor, with a gesture of bewilderment. "I do not know what you mean." Mungo chuckled with huge satisfaction. "Man, it's as plain's parridge! There's a gentleman in the toon down by that's a hot wooer, and daddy's for nane o' his kind roon' Doom; d'ye tak' me?" "But still but still " "But still the trystin' gaes on, ye were aboot to say.
Had his wooing all been violent she might have tired sooner, because those phases of his passion for her tired her. But there were times when he put her into a chair and sat on the floor at her feet, his handsome face uplifted to hers in a sort of humble adoration, his arms across her knees. It was not altogether studied. He was a born wooer, but he had his hours of humility, of vague aspirations.
Dale, from Philip drunken to Philip sober! from Riccabocca intoxicated with the assurance of your excellent lady, that he is about to be 'the happiest of men, to Riccabocca accustomed to his happiness, and carrying it off with the seasoned equability of one grown familiar with stimulants, in a word, appeal from Riccabocca the wooer to Riccabocca the spouse.
Three rides had each wooer under the lady Mette's eyes, and three rings Ebbe carried off and laid on the cushion before her. She stooped and passed about his neck the gold chain which she held for the prize; but I think they exchanged no looks.
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