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Updated: June 25, 2025
The mayor, questioned the evening before in the open street, declared positively that he should cast his vote for the first-comer on the list of eligibles rather than give it to Charles Keller, for whom, however, he had a high esteem. "Arcis shall be no longer a rotten borough!" he said, "or I'll emigrate to Paris."
You see, I know you of old, you dear maker of marriages!" The Countess reddened slightly at the charge, but laughed away her momentary embarrassment. It was true her interest in her young companion had led her to manage rencontres with various eligibles of the Countess's acquaintance, and she had already in mind two or three new possibilities men prominent in the younger diplomatic set.
I'm not trying to keep in the current; I've no social axe to grind; I merely suggested it, and if you don't want to " "Oh, of course, if you put it that way!" Rachael said with a faint shrug.. "I'll get hold of some eligibles we'll have Charlie, and have rather a youthful dinner!"
'How nice and pleasant! she said; 'but not as nice and pleasant as it was before. 'Not by a long mile! said Martha heartily. For Hazel had 'taken the eye' of all the eligibles at the concert, and was altogether disturbing. 'Perhaps, Martha, said Mrs.
You see, so many of the well-to-do eligibles prefer working girls actresses, chorus-singers, and barmaids, which, in addition to marriage in their own class, gives these girls a chance of stepping up; whereas the swell girls cannot marry grooms and footmen and raise them to their rank as their brothers can their housemaids and ballet-girls.
Yet, unfortunately, they would be unwilling to marry out of it. A curious situation! I have given up my life to buying a place for my children that is supposed to give them certain privileges, and I now am loath to have them take advantage of those privileges. The situation has its amusing as well as its pathetic side for my son, now that I come to think of it, is one of the eligibles.
She is twenty, and of the eligibles about she must select a husband; so she no longer snubs the young men, but makes herself amiable and seductive, is always going or having company. There is no grave buried in her heart, only a rather mortifying sense of failure that she will eradicate as soon as possible. Even Eugene seems to recover from the passion she feared would blight his life.
Heretofore the book of eligibles has been closed to everyone, except as certifications were made upon the requisition of the appointing officers. This secrecy was the source of much suspicion and of many charges of favoritism in the administration of the law. What is secret is always suspected; what is open can be judged.
You see, Brill, you and I are the only eligibles in the place, and now you are out of it, she's sure to take me sooner or later." "And pray how long am I to wait?" demanded the Major, controlling himself with difficulty. "I can't say," said Halibut; "but I don't think it's any good your waiting at all, because if I see any signs that Mrs.
Henry readily owned that it was by no means impossible, if he were to ask it: but he reminded the Archbishop that the Duke of Milan was poor, though proud; and that while he would consider the Princess Lucia eternally disgraced by marrying beneath her, he probably would not scruple to sell her hand to the highest bidder of those illustrious persons who stood on the list of eligibles.
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