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Doubtless, she lives in that fabled country still: but Narcissus has grown sadly wise since then, and he goes on pilgrimage no more. If the Reader has heard enough of the amourettes of the young gentleman upon whose memoirs I am engaged, let him skip this chapter and pass to the graver chapters beyond.
An adroit monte player he was ready to do a little cheating upon occasions a capital judge of game "gallos," ever ready to stake his onzas upon a "main." In addition to these accomplishments, the padre boasted of others. In his cups, and this was nothing unusual, he was in the habit of relating the liaisons and amourettes of his earlier life, and even some of later date.
Our preference that spring was for a certain meadow abloom with pink amourettes, and I always brought home great bouquets of these flowers. I cherish particularly the remembrance of an evening in which my mother had promised, as a special favor, to join us in our walk to the fields of pink amourettes.
It is a prostitution of the word "love" to excuse Trilby's temporary amourettes with a "quia multum amavit." His extraordinary article on George Du Maurier in Harper's Magazine for September, 1897, is, perhaps, so far as style is concerned, as glaring an example of how not to do it as can be found in the range of American letters. Perhaps Mr. George W. Cable is entitled to rank with Mr.
He equally avoided pawning his youth to any of the maturer married ladies, whose status and character, together with those of their husbands, license them to practice as certificated Egerias. His dangerous penchant was for highly spiced adventuresses, and for pastoral amourettes, wistful and obscure. But he never gave away his heart; he lent it out at interest.
When I recall that time, when I think of those meadows all abloom with amourettes, and of those pink moths, there is mingled, to my regret, a sort of indefinable pain whose intensity I cannot understand, an anguish I always feel when I find myself in the presence of things that impress and charm me with their undercurrent of mystery.
Love was absent from his life, or only present, if you prefer, in such a form that even the least serious of Burns's amourettes was ennobling by comparison; and so there is nothing to temper the sentiment of indoor revelry which pervades the poor boy's verses.
"Hush, hush! Never mind that, my dear!" "It's all nonsense, James; we've had more than enough of this sentimentality! A love-child setting himself up as a member of the family it's quite time he did know what his mother was! Why should we be saddled with the child of a Popish priest's amourettes? There, then look!"
Vivian had passed such a recluse life for the last two years and a half, that he had quite forgotten that he was once considered an agreeable fellow; and so, determined to discover what right he ever had to such a reputation, he dashed into all these amourettes in beautiful style. But Vivian Grey was a young and tender plant in a moral hothouse. His character was developing itself too soon.
Captain De Stancy was a personage who would have been called interesting by women well out of their teens. He was ripe, without having declined a digit towards fogeyism. He was sufficiently old and experienced to suggest a goodly accumulation of touching amourettes in the chambers of his memory, and not too old for the possibility of increasing the store.
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