16 Metaphors for smithson

And now Lady Kirkbank told Lesbia that this Mr. Smithson, a nobody with a great fortune, was a man whose addresses she, the sister of Lord Maulevrier, ought to welcome.

What were Lesbia's feelings in the early morning after the last day of the regatta, as she slowly paced the lavender walk in the Ladies' Garden, alone?for happily Mr. Smithson was not so early a riser as the Grasmere-bred damsel, and she had this fresh morning hour to herself.

My engagement is a fact.' 'Oh, of course, Mr. Smithson is the winner.

'The crisis is come and is past, and Mr. Smithson and I are just as good friends as ever.' 'What!'

Montesma had nothing to do but to amuse himself and his companions all day in the saloon, amidst odours of roses and peaches, in a shadowy coolness made by striped silken blinds; but Mr. Smithson was not so much his own master.

' 'Miss Trinder must be very bad style,' said Lesbia, with languid scorn, 'and Mr. Smithson is an execrable person.

I am told Smithson is a really excellent fellow when one gets to know him; and I shall make it my business to be better acquainted with him.' Smithson was standing just out of hearing, watching the bowling.

Mr. Smithson is not an Adonis, nor are his manners particularly fascinating.' 'My child how fresh you are!

And then Georgie tells me that this Mr. Smithson whom Lesbia has refused is a very important personage, a millionaire, and very likely to be made a peer.' 'A new peer,' said Mary, making a wry face.

Mr. Smithson was too good a tactician to go wrong in this way.

Mr. Smithson was a great authority on the Stock Exchange, though he had ceased for the last three or four years to frequent the 'House,' or to be seen in the purlieus of Throgmorton Street.

'Mr. Smithson may be a scoundrel; indeed, I believe he is a pretty bad specimen in that line,' said Lord Hartfield.

She had no doubt Mr. Smithson was a very good match, according to the modern estimate of matrimonial alliances, in which money seemed to be the Alpha and Omega.

Mr. Smithson and I were partners, and he paid my losses.

The girl is an innocent creature; and if this Smithson is her father, I doubt if she has been told by anybody the facts of the case,probably there was some very different reason given her for dropping that last syllable of the name.

Mr. Smithson was a much less ardent suitor, and made his offer with the air of a man who expects to be accepted.

16 Metaphors for  smithson