The feminine society world welcomed him gladly, because he was rich, distinguished, a good match, and almost a newcomer, with a halo of romance on account of his supposed death and the tragic loss of his wife.
His having encountered her in such exceptional circumstances, and his mother having at one time mentioned her to him as a good match, had drawn his particular attention to her.
Sonya felt that this was true: that the only possibility of retrieving the Rostovs' affairs was by Nicholas marrying a rich woman, and that the princess was a good match.
I grant that they are looking out for a good match, so are all the world; but let me do them justice.
So great was the outcry raised by those who had hoped to have secured me as a good match, that any young man of fashion who was seen with me, had, by many, his name erased from their visiting lists.
A GOOD MATCH Strauss' band was playing in the saloons of the Horticultural Society, which was so full that the young cadet Hussar-sergeant Max B.
While we were eating it I was astonished at my false niece's wit, and she made a good match for me at the meal, for she had an excellent appetite, and drank as well as any girl of her age.
The mother and daughter, fearing the results of my affection, and finding it would be a good match, lost no time in giving their consent.
And soon dear Laetitia will be making a good match, a splendid match"; and beautiful Laetitia would faintly colour and faintly smile.
Later on, when Laetitia had left school and was within sight of putting up her hair, "good match" was openly spoken of by Aunt Belle in her crowded drawing-room or alone in company of the two girls and Uncle Pyke.
Of course; but I had much rather see you well married, and your own mistress; and this is such a good match.
You ought to make a good match, a brilliant match--if there were any chance for a girl in such a hole as this.
She will make a good match, I daresay, and get out of her father's hands.
I apprehend that she will meet with divers young gentlemen, with any of whom she might make a good match; and she can then make selection of him that will be most agreeable to her.
And lastly, she threatened Phoebe with "a good match.
Not being trained to believe that the only end and aim of a woman's life was a good match, she was a little disturbed, when the first pleasing excitement was over, to discover that her fortune was her chief attraction.
The "good match" theory in explanation of Camelia's motives only fortified his own quiet consciousness of supremacy.
That Camelia should be the object of such comment, that her achievement of the "good match" should be canvassed, infuriated him.
She was going to marry Arthur Henge, because he was a good match, not because she loved him; any girl might have loved him certainly, but Camelia was capable of loving no one.
It will be too ridiculous if for a set of foolish romantic scruples you go and throw a good match away.
To throw away a good match at your age, and with your prospects!
In her case everything was to be sacrificed to the duty of "making a good match," of settling herself advantageously in the world, but now what did she hear?
Being naturally a romantic, sentimental girl, she mentally resented the sordid necessity so continually urged by her aunts of making a "good match.
She'll never make a good match," they were wont to say, "never!
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