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"Women," she went on, "spend all their money and half their lives trying to look well, and you'd suppose they would learn something, but they don't." "What do women dress for?" he demanded; "is it to make themselves seductive to men or to have other women admire and envy them?" "Both," she answered, "but mostly it's a sort of competition with men for the prize.
For my own part, I had no hope. Remembering the subtle, seductive beauty of the woman, I could well imagine Miles being led, even against himself, into a marriage or anything else. When they were gone I went back to the library.
It lulls them to a gentle feeling of seductive delight, a condition which lays men so often open to a bad woman's unscrupulousness, but also to a good woman's influence for bringing out all that is greatest and best in their nature. The waiting was too long for Will. He was a lover of no great restraint. "Well, Eve?" he demanded, almost sharply. "Two months to-day. Will you?
The spectacle of a free people, separated only by six leagues of sea, was, according to him, a seductive example to the French, especially to those among them who bent unwillingly under his yoke. At an early period of Mr. Fox's ministry a Frenchman made the proposition to him of assassinating the Emperor, of which information was immediately transmitted to M. de Talleyrand.
In the warm and seductive night Khuns whispered to me: "As long ago at Bekhten I exorcised the demon from the suffering Princess, so now I exorcise from these ruins all spirits but my own. To-night these ruins shall suggest nothing but majesty, tranquillity, and beauty. Their records are for Ra, and must be studied by his rays.
Instead of getting hold of man's freedom, Thou has enlarged it still more! Hast Thou again forgotten that to man rest and even death are preferable to a free choice between the knowledge of Good and Evil? Nothing seems more seductive in his eyes than freedom of conscience, and nothing proves more painful.
Thither the Yozis came and found no man, but out of the dark from inland towards evening came a herd of great baboons and chattered greatly when they saw the ships. Then spake Snyrg to them: "Have ye, too, a god?" And the baboons spat. Then said the Yozis: "We be seductive gods, having a particular remembrance for little prayers."
She could be submissive in appearance while still persisting in her aims. She could be languorous and seductive while cold within. Again, she could assume the haughtiness which belonged to one who was twice a queen. Two motives swayed her, and they fought together for supremacy. One was the love of power, and the other was the love of love.
'I, madam? my dear lady! the General flashed out in a radiance that dulled instantly. 'Well, said she cheerfully, 'and you're for the old woman? 'For Lady Camper. 'You are seductive in your flatteries, General. Well, then, we have to speak of business. 'My affairs General Ople was beginning, with perturbed forehead; but Lady Camper held up her finger.
She seemed riper, more developed, more of a woman, more seductive, more desirable, adorably desirable. And this strange, unknown woman, whom he had accidentally met in a railway carriage, belonged to him; he had only to say to her: "I insist upon it." He had formerly slept in her arms, existed only in her love, and now he had found her again certainly, but so changed that he scarcely knew her.
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