 | James Pagan - 1856 - 594 sider
...short time, and won all my affections. Some people reckon her handsome; but I, that am her lover, don't think her a beauty. She has much sweetness of temper,...sense enough, and is very civil and engaging in her bchaviour. She refused a clergyman with £1300 a-year, and is at present addressed to by a very rich... | |
 | Robert Wright - 1864 - 674 sider
...short time, and won all my affections. Some people reckon her handsome; but I, that am her lover, don't think her a beauty. She has much sweetness of temper,...engaging in her behaviour. She refused a clergyman with -£1300 a year, and is at present addressed to by a very rich knight; but to your antagonist's misfortune,... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 sider
...and two or three times at her own house. She made a surprising progress in that short time, and won all my affections. Some people reckon her handsome, but I, that am her lover, don't think her a beauty. She has much sweetness of temper, sense enough, and is very civil and engaging... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1890 - 352 sider
...describes in a letter to a friend—" Some people reckon her handsome; but I, that am her lover, don't think her a beauty. She has much sweetness of temper,...engaging in her behaviour. She refused a clergyman with £1300 a year, and is at present addressed to by a very rich knight. The maid is tall and thin, about... | |
 | Arthur Granville Bradley - 1895 - 234 sider
...all his affections. " Some people," he naively says, " call her handsome ; I that am her lover don't think her a beauty ; she has much sweetness of temper,...engaging in her behaviour. She refused a clergyman with £1300 a year, and is now addressed by a very rich knight." As the knight appears to be of doubtful... | |
 | Sir Arthur George Doughty, George William Parmelee - 1901 - 398 sider
...uncle's, and two or three times at her " own house. She made a surprising progress in that " time, and won all my affections. Some people reckon " her handsome...sense " enough, and is very civil and engaging in her behav" iour. She refused a clergyman with ^1,300 a year, and " is at present addressed to by a very... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1909 - 616 sider
...and two or three times at her own house. She made a surprising progress in that short time, and won all my affections. Some people reckon her handsome; but I, that am her lover, don't think her a beauty.1 She has much sweetness of temper, sense enough, and is very civil and engaging... | |
 | 1908 - 1088 sider
...Wilfrid Lawson of that day, and a maid-of-honour at Court. His own description of the lady is, ' I don't think her a beauty. She has much sweetness of temper,...enough, and is very civil and engaging in her behaviour. In point of fortune she has no more than I have a right to expect, viz. 12,000Z. . . . The maid is... | |
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I was several times with her,—sometimes in public, sometimes at her uncle's, and two or three times at her own house. She made a surprising progress in that short time, and won all my affections. Some people reckon her handsome; but I, that am her lover,... 