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Ah! my beloved companion, who art now far from the sorrows and cares of this weary world, couldst thou have thought that the daughter thou didst clasp to thy bosom, would, like the wicked wife of Job, become a temptress to her father in the hour of affliction, and recommend to him to make his conscience truckle to his interest, and to beg back at the bloody hands of his master's and perhaps his son's murderers, a wretched remnant of the royal property he has been robbed of!
I said that she was naethin' but a wanton" only this was not the word Whinnie used "a wanton o' Babylon and a temptress o' men and a corrupter o' homes out o' her time and place, bein' naught but a soft shinin' thing that was a mockery to the guid God who made her and a blight to the face o' the open prairie that she was foulin' with her presence.
Her life is valuable to me, and she shall live. But, I repeat, you cannot marry the rich heiress, Mistress Mallet." "Temptress!" cried the earl, "you put frightful thoughts into my head." "Go your ways," replied Judith, "and think no more about her. All shall be done that you require. I claim as my reward the contents of that chest."
Amid the landscape of the civilization of the noblest country that the world possesses, we have the drama repeated. In the work of Anne Hutchinson, Ann Lee, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Susan Anthony, Ellen Dietrick, Lillie Blake, and their fellow- commentators, we have re-enacted the Temptress and the Fall. Woman first aspired.
A girl whom his brother had confided to him, whom he had brought up like a good father, and who was now this temptress of twenty-five a woman in her supreme omnipotence! He felt himself more defenseless, weaker than a child.
She did not come, and this in itself was a disappointment, for at least she brought a human voice and a pitying countenance which, temptress though she might be, had helped to bear Aurelia through the first days. Oh! could she but find anything to do! She had dusted her two rooms as well as she could consistently with care for the dress she could not change.
She, too, was flushed and looking almost young. "Ah! If we could do the things we want to. "That's very pretty, Edward; but you should, you know for a tonic." He shook his head and smiled. "You're a temptress, Leila. Will you let Nollie know, please, that we can take her back with us? Can you let her off to-morrow?" "For as long as you like; she wants a rest. I've been talking to Gratian.
At that moment, when she was glowing with happiness, she became a most dangerous temptress. A seductive smile parted her lips, her eyes shone in radiant splendour. She had never been so beautiful, never so amiable. Even Mr. Tiralla profited by her radiant smiles; he simply basked in them. She was looking at him so kindly; ah, there was not another woman who could be compared with his Sophia.
Louise laughed a short, nervous laugh, and, looking him full in the eyes, replied: "You know what I mean. I love you better than any man I ever met, save one." Captain Joliette slowly arose to his feet and stood staring at her, his passion and his scruples waging a bitter battle within him for the mastery. The temptress half reclined on the sofa, a miracle of seductive grace and voluptuous beauty.
Hayne and the major asked that she be secured, and the moment we found her fled it confirmed their suspicions, and Billings sent despatches in every direction. She can't get away! She was his temptress, and I mean to make her share all the punishment." "Colonel," exclaimed Rayner, while beads of sweat stood out on his forehead, "she is worse, a thousand times worse! The woman is a fiend.
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