But it must not be supposed, because the personages of the Romance of a Poor Young Man are fairy-tale personages, that therefore they are not human personages.
We are confident from her first entrance that if, as we hope, our poor young man's head is screwed on as poor young men's heads should be, Marguerite will turn it.
He is a poor young man, but he is also a fairy prince.
He seemed terribly frightened, and he trembled all the time, and kept saying, 'Poor thing; poor young woman!
My poor young woman," said I, exerting my strength to raise her, "you must have met with very hard hearts to be thus surprised and overpowered by a little common humanity towards a poor fellow creature in distress.
And, if I would, would you not yourself scruple, as a married man, to be the cause of misery to a poor young creature?
If I knew a poor young creature, deserted by her friends and her seducer, and you would make a provision for her during her life, I would for her sake, not for yours, perhaps present her to you.
I thought she was making too much fuss about my poor young master's pleasant stories--and what about her own made-up tales about the three other ponies in the race with us?
Uncle, if you don't speak soon I think I'll go crazy," said my poor young master.
Then like a flash she was up on the mow, and had my poor young master by the collar.
Iss, dreadful, weren't it, poor young soul; a sad night for his poor mother!
Ah, poor young gentleman, I wonder where he is now?
But the most extraordinary change in my lord was in his conduct to Master Clinton: from doting upon him, to a degree that would have spoilt any temper less sweet than my poor young master's, he took the most violent aversion to him.
And now, to have him look down so low as me, must be a sort of mortification to a poor young lady!
Well, said I, and suppose he should resolve to ensnare a poor young creature, and ruin her, would you assist him in that?
Unfortunate Queen Matilda; one never knows how guilty, or whether guilty at all, but she was very unfortunate, poor young Lady!
Poor young gentleman, he was to have married that cousin of his mother's, Mistress Martha Browning, living at Emsworth.
You bear witness that only the most innocent civility ever passed between your brother and my poor young wife?
My lord, this is the young gentlewoman I told you of, betrothed to poor young Archfield," said Sir Edmund Nutley.
Mrs. Ercott phrased her impressions that same evening: "He looks quite hunted, poor young man!
A poor young soldier--lost a hand and badly wounded--can't sleep.
No; he's a'most like the ghost of what he was, poor young chap.
Poor young man, I thought he would be the first to grow tired of this sort of work.
He added, hanging his head for the first time, "Poor young gentleman!
Poor young thing," said he, with manly emotion, "I saw her come out of that room pale as death to do another woman justice.
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