Kepler's second courtship forms the subject of a highly characteristic letter addressed by him to Baron Stralendorf, in which he reviews the qualifications of eleven candidates for his hand, and explains the reasons which decided his choice in favour of a portionless orphan girl named Susanna Reutlinger. [Please select]
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She saw with sorrow, and sometimes with exasperation, symptoms of a growing attachment between her son and the portionless Sonya. [Please select]
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(Miss Lascelles was the portionless daughter of the impecunious younger son of a poor nobleman.) [Please select]
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The portionless brothers and relatives of the feudal lords, to whom no employments save war, adventure, and piracy were open, pillaged them illegally. [Please select]
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Once it had been said beneath a royal commissioner's breath that here in this portionless girl was a twin sorceress to the Queen who dwelt at Tutbury. [Please select]
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