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His anger on learning the facts in the case was extreme; he wrote me an insulting letter, and threatened to disown either or both of his sons unless they discontinued their attentions to a 'disreputable adventuress, as he chose to style me.
The adventuress of fiction always comes to grief. But the adventuress in real life the prudent adventuress who draws the line at adultery the would-be leader of society without the wealth the would-be political leader without the masculine fiber is sure of disappointment in the end. Take the agitation over Suffragism. What is it that the woman suffragette expects to get?
"Those who have seen Miss Merival only as the melodrama queen or the adventuress in jet-black evening dress have a surprise in store for them. Her Enid is a dream of cold, chaste girlhood a lily with heart of fire in whose tender, virginal eyes the lust and cruelty of the world arouse only pity and wonder.
Had some Moorish or Turkish Dame designed only to Divert herself at the expense of a poor Christian Slave? or was the Veiled Lady only some artful Adventuress of the Jewish, Armenian, or Cophtic Nation, of whom there were many here, affecting great magnificence in their Habits and Living?
The adventuress, who by a series of extraordinary circumstances had been enabled to pass herself as a cousin of the reigning family, looked at the Queen sadly: "Your Majesty is not very kind to me," she exclaimed with tears in her voice, "and I hoped for a more friendly farewell at the moment when I am taking my departure for the new world."
He took them all in, for they represented to him certain very interesting facts; but he perceived at the same time that Mrs. Luna didn't know what she was talking about. He had seen Verena Tarrant only twice in his life, but it was no use telling him that she was an adventuress though, certainly, it was very likely she would end by giving Miss Chancellor a cut.
"I've been afraid of something like this," he said, "ever since I began to realize that you had once been er foolish enough to become even slightly acquainted with that adventuress, Mrs. Ogleby. My advice is to fight, not to get in wrong by trying to dicker, for that might amount to confession, and suit Dorgan's purpose just as well. Photographs," he added sententiously, "are like statistics.
Her dress was severe and quiet, as became her occupation a plain, dark grey, but the shapely fulness of the figure gave softness to the outlines. It was no wonder Jasper Kimber wished to marry her; and, if he did, the future of the man was sure. She had a temperament which might have made her an adventuress or an opera-singer. She had been touched in time, and she had never looked back.
I know that his eyes are a brilliant and unnatural yellow colour, but otherwise I should not know him if I saw him unveiled, to-morrow. Except," she added, "by a sense of loathing which his presence inspires in me. But I must hurry. If you interrupt me, I shall not have time. "From that day in Cairo oh! how can I tell you! I began the life of an adventuress! I do not deny it.
"Cambridge is very pleasant in the summer?" he asked, his resolution weakening rapidly before her impassivity. "My daughter and I found it so. But, of course, it depends " It depended, he reflected, on such people as his son boys whom they could cheat at their ease. He had no doubt at all now that the mother was an adventuress of the common, melodrama type. He suspected the girl of being the same.
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