Girls like her don't stay single and keep store; there's too much demand and not enough competition.

Gad! If I wasn't an antique and married already I don't know but I'd be getting into line.

That's what!" Captain Shadrach was inclined to be angry, but, although he would not have admitted it, he realized the truth of this frank statement.
Mary-'Gusta was pretty, she was more than that, and the line was already forming.

Jimmie Bacheldor had long ago ceased to be a competitor; that friendship had ended abruptly at the time of David's narrow escape; but there were others, plenty of them.

Daniel Higgins, son of Mr.Solomon Higgins, the local lumber dealer and undertaker, was severely smitten.
Dan was at work in Boston, where he was engaged in the cheerful and remunerative business of selling coffins for the American Casket Company.