She was, in fact, the "ugly duckling" of a good-looking family, removed by a whole world from her beautiful eldest sister Charlotte, who counted among her many admirers no less exalted a wooer than Prince Frederick William, the King's nephew and heir to his throne.

[Footnote 123: It will be recalled that when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, was making his way to his house in company with the faithful swineherd Eumaeus, they met the goatherd Melanthius "leading his goats to feast the wooers, the best goats that were in all the herds.

Now, by the Mary matins, Peg, thou hast got the merriest wooer in all womanshire.

In the gay, glad light grow wooers bold, For there's brightness e'en in the dark morass, When the forest flames in crimson and gold.

He was accustomed to be wooed, and to be watched, but he had been trying for some time to bring his mind to like the present wooer.

'Twas thus our Giant lived a life of ease, Old Polyphemus, when, the down scarce seen On lip and chin, he wooed his ocean nymph: No curlypated rose-and-apple wooer, But a fell madman, blind to all but love.

" "Your claim cannot be resisted, Sir Francis," rejoined the other; "and if you had followed my counsel, you would not have condescended to play the abject wooer, but have adopted the manlier course, and demanded her hand as your right.

No trace of Rose was ever after found, nor was anything certain respecting her mysterious wooer discovered or even suspectedno clue whereby to trace the intricacies of the labyrinth and to arrive at its solution, presented itself.

He was both proud and fearful as to the thing to be done,proud that he, the Squire of Buston, should be called on to take so important a step; proud by anticipation of his feelings as he would return home a jolly thriving wooer,and yet a little fearful lest he might not succeed.

"I scorn and defy the suspicions of that enemy of the persecuted South, and high-handed wooer of exclusively Northern women!"

When however, he proposed marriage, Katharine deferred her answer for twelve months and a day, hoping by that time "his face would be more bearded," for, she said, "I'll mark no words that smoothfaced wooers say.

Mr. Jinks is happy, radiant, triumphant, and as he watches the retreating wooer, his frame shakes with sombre merriment.

The poor creatures know that their chances will be few, and therefore gratefully welcome the first wooer.