" "My face!" exclaimed the insulted spinster.

The next child was a daughter, who died a spinster; the next was a son, who became a priest, and the next a son, who died a bachelor.

"Oh, no, no!" cried the shocked and shrinking spinster.

The latter had pretended to be in love with her, had promised to marry her, and that day had induced the weak, silly old spinster to trust him with her little fortune.

" Mrs. St. Clair was not very much surprised at this speech, for Patty had told her of Miss Daggett's summary method of dismissing people; and so, with a sweet smile and a bow, the fashionable matron left the eccentric and indignant spinster.

And after the evidence, the joke of every man in the street would be to the effect that Priam Farll, rather than marry the skinny spinster, had pretended to be dead.

" "Fifty!" ejaculated the scandalized spinster.

In Morovenia there is a very strict law intended to eliminate the spinster from the social horizon.

Now, what do you sayyes or no." "If you really think it will be right," faltered the agitated spinster.

" "Some men eat more an' some less," remarked Sarah Jane, as ill-favored a spinster as ever the sun shone on; "generally it means so much grub ter so much weight.

" "Not all, Mattie; you forget the solitary spinster.

But I console myself with imagining that the pretty Chee-chee spinster who comes every morning from Raneemoody Gully in a green tonjon, and makes romantic eyes at me through the silk curtains, missed the Boston gentleman with the gray moustache, and was lonesome.

"There ain't any man I'd trust my happiness to," pursued the spinster.

Now the vast majority of women who have remained spinsters at 32, in spite of considerable personal attractions and high natural ability, are visited by waves of emotional fervor for a de-personalization of the self.

Edward FitzGerald adds to this his own note: "Miss Ridout I rememberan elegant spinster; friend of my mother's.

Mrs. Margaret," replied the nephew, "does a gentleman lower himself when he works merely for recreation, and not for sordid pelf; you have heard of Peter the Great?" "Bless me, nephew," replied the spinster, bridling, "where do you think my ears have been all my life, if I never heard of Peter the Great!"

If they had said spinster, of Bridewell, in the county of Middlesex, 'twould have been as true!

If any robber should come," added the kind-hearted spinster, "perhaps you had better only shoot him in the arm, and not kill him.

" Throughout my stay in England I searched for, but could not find, the self-effacing spinster of former days.

"Is he going to see what it was?" asked the spinster eagerly.

Let there be some quirk or weakness elsewhere in the chain of hormones, and instead of the successful woman, behold the spinsters, the maiden aunts, the prudes and cranks who never satisfactorily adapt themselves in society.

The wave carried the little spinster to the window.

I believe the regiments take out vivandièresthere would be an outlet for your warlike emotions," Mrs. Sprague said, with the purpose of cheering the unhappy spinster.

"Then what made you come here?" demanded the spinster.