"Bachelorship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never married, but in his youth he paid his addresses to the beautiful Susan Winstanley—old Winstanley's daughter of Clapton—who dying in the early days of their courtship, confirmed in him the resolution of perpetual bachelorship. It was during their short courtship, he told me, that he had been one day treating his mistress with a profusion of civil speeches—the common gallantries—to which kind of thing she had hitherto ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb |
