dorine

Updated: June 26, 2025

"My poor child, when one knows you as I do !" murmured Mme. de Brecourt with an arm round her. "There's a lady who helps him Mr. Flack has told me so," the girl continued. "She's a literary lady here in Paris she writes what he tells her. I think her name's Miss Topping, but she calls herself Florine or Dorine," Francie added. "Miss Dosson, you're too rare!"

Henry James - The Reverberator

In the prejudiced quarters to which I have alluded, one of the characters in "The Fallen Leaves" offended susceptibilities of the sort felt by Tartuffe, when he took out his handkerchief, and requested Dorine to cover her bosom.

Wilkie Collins - Jezebel's Daughter