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Young Bunny Brian seems to think so at any rate. But she is not and never will be an adventuress." "Is Bunny Brian fond of her really fond of her?" asked Sheila. Saltash nodded. "Sure thing as Jake would say! And he's a sound chap too. I hope he'll get her." "She is not very likely to refuse," said Sheila, turning from the rail. The little boat had passed out of sight under the lee of the yacht.
But the ways of the man were surely brutal to torture even vermin caught in the trap, and that woman, adventuress though she might be, had flinched before him in agony, as though her very nerves were being hacked out of her body. And Blenavon, too! Surely he might have remembered that he was her brother. He might have helped him to retain just a portion of his self-respect.
You are not going to bring a man all the way from Paris in order to shut him up at an hotel in Genoa with an Italian adventuress." When I told him, very calmly, to return to Paris, he exclaimed that he was going to do so the very next day; but the next day he was still there, still in a rage and swearing.
To-day the old struggle sought to begin afresh, but he was not disposed to yield, and did not cease to summon Isabella's image, in all its beauty, before his soul. Henrica returned to her aunt in a deeply-agitated mood. Was the adventuress of whom Wilhelm had spoken, the only creature whom she loved with all the ardor of her passionate soul? Was Isabella her lost sister?
Clare colored and her eyes began to sparkle. "Do you think we mind?" "I don't," Dick answered awkwardly, feeling that he was not getting on very well. "I know how kind you are and that you wouldn't shirk any trouble. But still " "Suppose we don't think it a trouble?" Dick knitted his brows. It was hard to believe that the girl who sat watching him with a puzzled look was an adventuress.
When the general was arrested, madame his wife an adventuress named Gaskevitch, who had commenced life as a typist in a solicitor's office, and who was many years his junior had a terrible attack of hysteria, for things had taken for her a most unexpected turn. The woman had been implicated in intrigue and treachery ever since.
He could see now only a wisp of face like a sickle of a silver moon, and the feeling that disturbed him in the day did not return to him. He again imagined her cold and hard, a woman of middle age, battered by the world, an adventuress who did not fear to go forth in the night upon what he thought unholy errands.
The name of Fanny Lear may sound familiar to some readers because it was given to an American adventuress in Russia by a grand-ducal admirer. After Fanny Lear came Froufrou, the lineal successor of The Stranger as the current masterpiece of the lachrymatory drama. Nothing so tear-compelling as the final act of Froufrou had been seen on the stage for half a century or more.
"I should hope not, indeed," said Miss Fowler, half mollified. Hugh smiled sleepily. The cat opened one yellow eye and moved mystified whiskers. She profoundly distrusted this affectionate young admirer. Was she being stroked the wrong way or ruffled the right way? "Tiger, tiger, burning bright," murmured Hugh. "Puzzle, Kitty: find the Adventuress." From Century Magazine
Her society veneer was stripped off, and the adventuress pure and simple came to the surface. Indignant at the way in which she had deceived everyone, and having much at stake, Random did not spare her. "It is not a mistake," he insisted; "neither is it a lie.
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