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The jeweler, therefore, had good reason to hope that she would relieve him of the necklace. An adventuress, a Mme. de La Motte, acquainted at court and also with the Prince Louis de Rohan, who had incurred the displeasure of the queen, informed the cardinal that Marie Antoinette was willing to again extend to him her favor.
"What are you going to do with your life now?" he asked, presently. It was a bald question. "I shall become an adventuress," I answered, deliberately. "A what?" he exclaimed, his black eyebrows contracting. "An adventuress. Is not that what it is called? A person who sees life, and has to do the best she can for herself." He laughed.
'This sacrilege, this injustice shall not be done with my consent. What was it you said to him, Jack?" "I told him unless he stopped talking in such an excited manner, and made less noise, it would have a very prejudicial effect upon my patient's health. "The son-in-law then denounced Mrs. Bliss as an adventuress, and that she had no legal claim upon his father-in-law.
From the moment of her entrance into his library, he had summed her up in his mind with a single word. She was, beyond a doubt, an adventuress. No woman could have proposed the things which she had proposed, who was not of that ilk. Yet for that reason it behooved them to have a care in their dealings with her.
"If you'd been down in Sonora lately, Jim, you'd know all about Pansy Blossom. She sings rather well, I hear, and dances. It would seem that she has the makings of a highly successful actress," he concluded meaningly. Kendric stared at him. "You mean that Betty Gordon here is some sort of an adventuress?" he demanded. For answer Bruce shrugged elaborately and returned Kendric's stare.
Lorraine read it with silent amazement, and thought the writer must be mad. It seemed quite incredible that any lady in the twentieth century should apparently be so ignorant concerning the status of a celebrated actress. It was evidently taken for granted that she was an adventuress of the worst type.
Julian entered the dining-room. From MR. HORACE HOLMCROFT to MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY. "I HASTEN to thank you, dear Miss Roseberry, for your last kind letter, received by yesterday's mail from Canada. Believe me, I appreciate your generous readiness to pardon and forget what I so rudely said to you at a time when the arts of an adventuress had blinded me to the truth.
He is quite old over thirty and has hair turning gray. Now he is master here, and I must leave unless he proposes to marry me at our meeting this afternoon, which he probably won't do. However, there can be no harm in my making myself look as attractive as possible under the circumstances. As I am to be an adventuress, I must do the best I can for myself.
The king will learn that M. de Guiche has taken up the cause of this little adventuress, who gives herself all the airs of a grand lady; he will learn that Monsieur de Bragelonne, having nominated his friend M. de Guiche his guardian-in-ordinary, the latter immediately fastened, as he was required to do, upon the Marquis de Wardes, who ventured to trench upon his privileges.
"The truth itself turns liar, and takes her side." She paused, and rallied her sinking courage. "No!" she cried, resolutely, "I won't submit to have my name and my place taken from me by a vile adventuress! Say what you like, I insist on exposing her; I won't leave the house!" The servant entered the room, and announced that the cab was at the door.
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