With her help, he beguiles a series of lonely women, promising marriage while borrowing substantial sums of money.
In my book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating, one man was wooing women all over the country promising marriage, while he still had a wife at home.
Schiele went on to serve in the military; to have high-profile love affairs; get arrested and be thrown in jail; and before his own untimely death, make a proper and by all accounts promising marriage.
UTStarcom early on looked like a promising marriage of immigrant entrepreneurs and global venture capital.
David Cameron will use the balm of marriage to placate Tory rebels later, promising a marriage tax-break designed to bribe co-habitees to the altar with £150 a year.
When LeBron James coyly advised New Yorkers to keep their eyes on 2010, he was not promising a marriage with the Knicks.
It has been the subject of intense debate since well before this year's federal election, when the Coalition were elected on a slim majority after promising a marriage equality plebiscite vote as part of their platform.
(Le Fanu's readers would have known that wyvern is a subspecies of dragon, and that the word foreshadowed sinister doings.) Now, some years later, Alice is a fetching young woman, and in the film's best scene, just moments into the action, the squire proposes marriage, promising "the best settlement made on a Fairfield wife since my great-uncle's time".
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino spoke on gay rights to a group of orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn today, promising to veto marriage equality legislation and touting the fact that he didn't march in this year's gay pride parade.
ABC executives have peddled "The Bachelor" and its spin-off series, "The Bachelorette," for a whopping total of 27 seasons by promising such hope: of marriage, of true love, of more awkward televised wedding ceremonies.
