She says that the only man she cares to speak to in the county is Dr. Reed, that little frumpy fellow with his medicines.
"Muslin"
George Moore
However, as everything is really his, I don't see that we ought to complain; only, it can't be pleasant for him to feel that Mother is worrying lest he should marry and make her a frumpy dowager, before we two girls are off her hands.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson