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Almost everything in fact lends itself to the historic, the romantic, the aesthetic fallacy almost everything has an antique queerness and richness that ekes out the reduced state; that of a grim and battered old adventuress, the heroine of many shames and scandals, surviving to an extraordinary age and a considerable penury, but with ancient gifts of princes and other forms of the wages of sin to show, and the most beautiful garden of all the world to sit and doze and count her beads in and remember.
It's picturesque, and high-sounding, and yet not not invraisemblable. You don't think it invraisemblable? So here 's luck to that bold adventuress, that knightess-errant, the widow Torrebianca." She raised her fluffy white fan, as if it were a goblet from which to quaff the toast, and flourished it aloft. The poor old Commendatore was mumbling helpless imprecations in his moustache.
The presumption is that he had allowed himself to become the prey of an adventuress, and with the object of avoiding publicity he was practically compelled to provide for the welfare and future of a child which may or may not have been his offspring. But as soon as he married, he turned over a new leaf, and became the very model of husbands.
If I were a man, and had been told that Miss Brandon was an adventuress, I would have been bent upon ascertaining the matter. America is not so far off. I should have soon found the ten thousand men who had served under Gen. Brandon, and they would have told me what sort of a man their chief had been.
It was her brother Lawrence who took the most adverse view; insisting that Miss Rosser was neither more nor less than an adventuress "a pretty woman on the make" was his expression, uttered, it is true, before he had an opportunity of seeing her face.
"You see" apparently she had forgotten that Lanyard was anything but a lifelong friend "I needed money so badly, I had them reproduced and sold the originals." "Madame la princesse if she will permit commands my profound sympathy." "But," she remembered, drying her eyes, "you called me an adventuress, too!" "But," he contended, gravely, "you had already called me the Lone Wolf."
I looked hastily at Stone, thinking he might be annoyed by Winnie's volatile speech. But he said kindly, "To the trained eye, Miss Calhoun, much is apparent that escapes the casual observer. But you can understand that the taste displayed in the wall decoration, shows a refined and cultured nature. A woman of the adventuress type would prefer more garish display.
She is my second cousin once removed and your sister, but for all that she is a scheming unprincipled intriguer and adventuress, who has never brought and never will bring good to any house in which she lives. You may try to get her away to London if you like, but you'll never succeed." "I have tried already; I thought that she would be better with me," said Hubert. "But it was of no use."
But in San Francisco at a distance of over three thousand miles Dodger felt at a loss how to act. Even if Mr. Linden was informed that his nephew had a wife living in San Francisco, the statement would no doubt be denied by Curtis, who would brand the woman as an impudent adventuress. "The absent are always in the wrong," says a French proverb.
Sometimes she was Ninon, scorning men amid continual fetes; or some applauded actress, or gay adventuress, exhausting in her own behalf the luck of Gil Blas, or the triumphs of Pasta, Malibran, and Florine. Then, weary of the horrors and excitements, she returned to actual life.
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