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Prissy nearly wept at the injustice of such skepticism. It was Pet Bettany, of all people, who came to his rescue with credulity. She was sincerely convinced. A voluptuary and intrigante herself, she believed that her own ideas of happiness and her own impulses were shared by everybody, and that people who frowned on vice were either hypocrites or cowards.

He had some desire that the Cardinal de Tencin should succeed him; but his sister was such an intrigante that Cardinal de Fleury advised me to have nothing to do with the matter, and I behaved so as to destroy all his hopes, and to undeceive others. M. d'Argenson has strongly impressed me with the same opinion, and has succeeded in destroying all my respect for him."

"Then there was some local scandal on the subject of Barnes and Mrs. Fairmile?" "Possibly. Scandal pour rire! Not a soul believed that there was anything more in it than mischief on the woman's side, and a kind of incapacity for dealing with a woman as she deserved, on the man's. Mrs. Fairmile has been an intrigante from her cradle. Barnes was at one time deeply in love with her.

Since the death of his youngest son, she had been indefatigable in her attentions, and sanguine in her hopes; the disappointment affected both her interest and her pride, as an INTRIGANTE. It was necessary, however, to keep her feelings to herself; for if Heathcock should hear anything of the matter before the articles were signed, he might 'be off! so she put him and Lady Isabel into her coach directly drove to Gray's, to make sure at all events of the jewels.

But on politicians of a sentimental cast her influence has been considerable, especially on Gladstone, who is singularly amenable to female flattery, and a perfect child in the hands of a clever intrigante of this kind. But I am certainly sorry that Froude should have attached his name to her letters.

The encore ended; they returned to the table, Sophie leaning lightly on Lanyard's arm, chattering gay inconsequentialities. Dropping into her chair, she bent over toward Cecelia Brooke. "He dances adorably, my dear!" the intrigante declared. "But I dare say you know that already." The English girl shook her head, smiling. "Not yet." "Then lose no time.

Mrs. Murray stopped suddenly, and confronting her niece, said sternly: "What do you mean, Estelle Harding?" "My dear aunt, the goodness of your heart has strangely blinded you to the character of the girl you have taken into your house, and honored with your confidence and affection. Be patient with me while I unmask this shrewd little intrigante.

"Something of an intrigante, eh?" "At least enough to excite the anger and suspicion of Austria, the interest of England, the concern of France; that's all!" "Of what age is she?" "Of about that age, my dear Sir, which our children or grandchildren might claim. I should say, twenty-three, twenty-four, not over twenty-six, perhaps. It is difficult to say. I have met her but rarely."

Serafina had watched this little by-play out of the corner of her eye, though her face was apparently turned away from them, and she bit her lip till it bled, with vexation; so after all the soubrette had succeeded, by an abominably bold action, in compelling the marquis to neglect her betters and give his warmest welcome to a low intrigante, said the "leading lady" to herself, swelling with righteous indignation, and abusing the offender roundly in her thoughts wishing that she could do it aloud, and expose her outrageous, unmannerly artifice.

She should not be a military intrigante like the one, nor a female martinet like the other, nor a gambler like a third, nor a snob like a fourth, nor a fool about young men like several he could think of. By dint of fastidious observation and careful rejection of the qualities of which he disapproved, a vision rose before him of the woman who would be the complement of himself.