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Therefore, fearing that the man whom you saw accompanying me, who has all the shrewdness of a woman, might make the same discovery, I sent him away. Monsieur, let me tell you that a true Republican officer just from the Polytechnique would not have made love to me as you have done, and would not have taken me for a pretty adventuress.
The musician walked thoughtfully towards home. Was Isabella a relative of this young girl? He had told Henrica almost all he knew of her external circumstances, and this perhaps gave the former the same right to call her an adventuress, that many in Rome had assumed. The word wounded him, and Henrica's inquiry whether he loved the stranger disturbed him, and appeared intrusive and unseemly.
He could see that she was agitated her breath came quickly, and her hands folded and unfolded as though she were tearing something to pieces. "This," said Mrs. Feverel, "is my daughter, Mr. Trojan. My dear, Mr. Henry Trojan." She bowed and sat down opposite her mother. He thought she looked rather pathetic as she faced him; here was no adventuress, no schemer.
But Mrs Fyne ought to have known better. She wrote a letter to her brother, a little later. Years afterwards Roderick allowed me to glance at it. I found in it this sentence: `For years I tried to make a friend of that girl; but I warn you once more that she has the nature of a heartless adventuress' ... `Adventuress! repeated Flora slowly. `So be it. I have had a fine adventure."
Why, of course he wanted to hear of her further, from the lips of this supposed girl friend. 'Poor fellow! I thought, beginning to imagine a little romance there in the White City; and then I turned myself about with a sudden jerk. Truly, my wits were wool-gathering. Confound that little adventuress! He had turned away so suddenly, and he knew the owner of the bag.
Old European travelers can recall many funny and sometimes melancholy incidents episodes histories of which they have witnessed the beginning and the end, carrying the self-same dénouement and lesson. As there are women and women there are many kinds of adventuresses; not all of them wicked and detestable. But, good or bad, the lot of the adventuress is at best a hard lot.
"You're an adventuress a damn adventuress Hawley's mistress, probably a " "Now, see here, Waite," and Fairbain swung himself forward, "you drop that. Miss Maclaire is my friend, and if you say another word I'll smash you, sheriff or no sheriff." Waite glared at him. "You old fool," he snorted, "what have you got to do with this?"
My eyes are as green as pale emeralds, and long, and not going down at the corners with the Madonna expression of Cicely Parker, the vicar's daughter. I do not know yet what is being good, or being bad; perhaps I shall find out when I am an adventuress, or married to Mr. Carruthers. All I know is that I want to live, and feel the blood rushing through my veins.
In that villa Monna Vittoria recovered briskly, thanks to her youth and her health, and in that villa a little later the adventurer wedded the adventuress, and proved to the end of their days patterns of wedded content and pleasure.
"You began by saying you would tell me about yourself," he said; "will you not go on?" "I have more brains than my father," she said, "and no more principles." "Ergo you succeed where he falls short; in fact, you are an adventuress is that it?
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