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Updated: May 29, 2025
Reggie Mann told wonderful tales about the contents of her enormous mail about wives and daughters of mighty rich men who flung themselves at her feet and pleaded abjectly for her favour who laid siege to her house for months, and intrigued and pulled wires to get near her, and even bought the favour of her servants!
It was when he bethought him of that age of his that he was chiefly intrigued by the amazing ardour of this great lady of Bearn. A dozen years ago before misfortune overtook him he would have accepted her flagrant wooing as a proper tribute.
Queen Caroline, excited at the capture of Capri by Sir Sidney Smith, sought to rouse all her lost provinces: she intrigued behind the back of the King and of General Acton, while the knight-errant succeeded in paralyzing the plans of Sir John Stuart.
"Do you mean to say that you have known throughout that I did not kill Samoval?" he asked. "Of course. How could I have supposed you killed him when I killed him myself?" "You? You killed him!" cried Tremayne, more and more intrigued. And "You killed Count Samoval?" exclaimed Miss Armytage. "To be sure I did," was the answer, cynically delivered, accompanied by a short, sharp laugh.
The circumstance that had intrigued me for so long was determined with an abruptness only less remarkable than the surprise of the onset. Two deaths within six months brought to me, the first, a competence, the second, release from gall and bitterness. For the first time in my life I was a free man. At forty one can still look forward, and I put the past behind me and made plans for the future.
In German philosophy, the brilliant epoch of Kant was immediately followed by a period which aimed rather at being imposing than at convincing. Instead of being thorough and clear, it tried to be dazzling, hyperbolical, and, in a special degree, unintelligible: instead of seeking truth, it intrigued.
The King took no notice. Catinat, when the command was taken out of his hands by the Marechal de Villeroy, made himself admired on every side by the moderation and tranquillity with which he conducted himself. If Vaudemont was satisfied with the success of his schemes, it was far otherwise with Tesse, who had merely intrigued against Catinat for the purpose of obtaining the command of the army.
Of Tressa he had so many glowing things to write in his letters to his wife that Helen threatened to rush north in self-defence. Thereupon he crammed one letter from start to finish with Tressa Torrance's praises, and defied Helen to fulfil her threat. In the course of his work the solitary part that intrigued him was the mystery of the Indian.
Then followed wild and guilty but abortive projects for retrieving his failure, by using his power in Ireland to make himself formidable to his enemies at Court, and even to the Queen herself. He intrigued with Tyrone; he intrigued with James of Scotland; he plunged into a whirl of angry and baseless projects, which came to nothing the moment they were discussed.
He just sat there, saying nothing, but looking at her furtively now and again, and blinking, as if looking at her hurt him. Whenever she said anything he stared, with his mouth a little open, breathing heavily. She hadn't paid very much attention to him. Then, suddenly, as if intrigued by his silence, she said: "Who is the Heaven-afflicted idiot?" I said, "Ask Mr. Jevons." She did.
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