He said he must expect competitors; adding, on a start, that he was to say, from his mother, she, in the case of an intention to present Miss Radnor at Court....
Victor waved hand for a finish, looking as though, his head had come out of hot water.

He sacrificed Royalty to his necessities, under a kind of sneer at its functions: 'Court! my girl?
But the arduous duties are over for the season.

We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; and of course a girl may like to count among the flowers of the kingdom for a day, in the list of Court presentations; no harm.

Only there's plenty of time...

very young girls have their heads turned--though I don't say, don't imagine, my girl would.