"Fiance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good to this poor young man then; I adore rows—and you'll have a few on your hands I'll warrant. Let me remind you that your uncle can make it unpleasant for you yet, and that your amiable fiance has a will of his own under his pompadour and ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... you say, losing his head," cried Monsieur de Camps; "he is like Thomas Diafoirus, proposing to take his fiance to enjoy ...
— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac
... taxed him on the point, but he suffered her inquiry with imperturbable sangfroid, and she found herself no wiser respecting the cause of his annoyance. Painful twinges of conscience came during the ensuing days, when she found herself in her fiance's company, but she never once seriously contemplated dropping the acquaintance of ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer
... Lady Eileen. You had found a dead man in Mr. Grell's house—a man whom you suspected of blackmailing your fiance. You not unnaturally thought that he had been killed ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
... regretted, during the last few weeks, the feeling of outraged pride which had incited her to consent to this marriage; her loyal, sincere nature had revolted at the constraint she had imposed upon herself; her nerves had been so severely taxed by having to receive her fiance with sufficient warmth to satisfy his expectations, and yet not afford any encouragement to his demonstrative tendencies, that the certainty of her newly acquired freedom created a sensation of relief and well-being. But, hardly had she analyzed and acknowledged this sensation when ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
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