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Leonora Avenel speaks in me, and commands the guilty father to acknowledge the innocent child!" Harley half rose, and his eyes literally flashed fire; but he calmed his anger into irony. "Ha!" said he, with a sarcastic smile, "so you suppose that I was the perfidious seducer of Nora Avenel, that I am the callous father of the child who came into the world without a name.
Or did she seek to expiate her guilt by assisting her husband in the punishment of her seducer? A witness at the trial described Mme.
The name, like a sudden spark of electric fire, seemed for a moment to suspend his faculties for a moment he was transfixed; but recovering, he caught Belcour's hand, and cried "Stop! stop! I beseech you, name not the lovely Julia and the wretched Montraville in the same breath. I am a seducer, a mean, ungenerous seducer of unsuspecting innocence.
The seduction of Francoise de Rohan by the Duc de Nemours was the topic of all conversations; but, as the duke was cousin to Francois II., and doubly allied to the house of Valois through his mother, the Guises regarded him more as the seduced than the seducer.
"No, Giulia, he is an unprincipled spendthrift," returned the count, who never once took his eyes off his wife's countenance while he was speaking: "an unprincipled spendthrift," he added emphatically, "a man lost to all sense of honor a ruined gamester a heartless seducer a shame, a blot, a stigma upon the aristocracy of Florence; and now that you are acquainted with his real character, you will recognize the prudence of the step which I shall take to-morrow that is, to inform him that henceforth the Count and Countess of Arestino must decline to receive him again at their villa.
It is in Helen's interests that we are acting. It is still not too late to save her name." Then Margaret hit out for the first time. "Are we to make her seducer marry her?" she asked. "If possible. Yes." "But, Henry, suppose he turned out to be married already? One has heard of such cases." "In that case he must pay heavily for his misconduct, and be thrashed within an inch of his life."
And now, as Klea went towards the well within the temple-wall to fetch water, she repeated to herself many of these injunctions; she felt herself encouraged by them, and firmly resolved not to give her sister up to the seducer without a struggle.
My wife had finished her toilet as early as two o'clock and had gone to take a drive. She promised to be back at four o'clock. It struck half-past five and she had not got back yet. The clock struck eight and my anxiety increased. Had she, perhaps, got tired of her sick husband and eloped with a cunning seducer?
That he had insulted you deeply I knew from my own feelings, for I felt insulted in an equal degree. Upon that, my angel, I went to pieces, and, losing all self- control, plunged headlong. Bursting into an unspeakable frenzy, I was at once going to call upon this villain of a seducer though what to do next I knew not, seeing that I was fearful of giving you offence.
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