connections
/kəˈnɛkʃənz/ noun B1- The people financially involved with a racehorse or racing greyhound.
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It is one of the most desirable connections which could possibly be formed; he possesses fortune, a high rank in society, and every personal qualification likely to render Valentine supremely happy,—his name, moreover, cannot be wholly unknown to you.
I have dined many times with him and the Count of Morcerf, so you see I have some high connections and were I to cultivate them a little, we might meet in the same drawing-rooms.”
They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide them?--the upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune!
“Whatever my connections may be,” said Elizabeth, “if your nephew does not object to them, they can be nothing to _you_.”
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