Courted

How little does the situation of a courted, fashionable girl, surrounded by her admirers, and thus at liberty to give herself every impertinent air, which a vain mind,and a selfish, unfeeling heart dictate, resemble that of the unobserved, disregarded being, who night after night, follows some elderly, undistinguished chaperon through the regular round of London amusements, and, seated by her by hour after hour in dull neglect, seems at last to become a part of the bench she rests on, until reduced, perhaps, to be even envious of its insensibility!

'I think no one has been more courted than she,' she went on, 'but till quite lately she never cared seriously for anyone. […]'

Were she, indeed, the daughter of a royal house, as whe has so often imagined in her dreams, she could not possibly be more courted or fêted by the crowd of admirers who surround her, and amidst whom she passes almost for a Corinne, only more beautiful and more mysterious than even Madame de Staël's world-famed heroine.

Hannah's next visit to London was in January of the following year, 1776, and this time she was more courted than ever, on account of the success which had attended the publication of Sir Eldred of the Bower and The Bleeding Rock.

Millamant, for her part, is conscious of her powerful position as a courted woman, noting that “One's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power.”

And those circles to which a bon mot was the passport, could scarcely fail to be more agreeable than circles, in which, to be the most courted, it is sufficient to be the first-born.

At all events, their having discovered the fact was by no means to his advantage; for as my good will was of more value in the family than his, from the circumstances in which I stood in regard to the Duke, my favour was of course more courted, and it often happened that it was courted at his expense.

He found himself ever a welcome and a courted guest, and happiness, so long a stranger from his breast, now faded not again.