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Updated: June 19, 2025
Times change, and nowadays a young man attired after his fashion would be laughable, but for his day he looked all over like a lady-killer, from his tasselled French cap to his pointed patent leathers. Behind him walked a valet, carrying a brass-bound mahogany box, a clumsy easel, and a camp-stool.
Politics, gambling in every form, on the Bourse and at baccarat, and the reputation of a lady-killer which he must maintain at any price. Oh! he was a typical patient of Jenkins, and he certainly owed that visit in princely state to the inventor of the mysterious Pearls, which gave to his eyes that glance of flame, to his whole being that extraordinary pulsing vivacity.
He has a daughter, a most attractive, lovely daughter, just at that budding, unsuspecting age when the heart is most susceptible of impressions; and where, let me ask, could she run such a risk as in the chance of a casual meeting with the redoubted lady-killer, Master Frank Webber? If he has not sought you out, then here be his apology."
"I am rejoiced to hear this from my daughter, and thus to be certain that she will not fall in love with the Earl of Surrey, who is everywhere else called 'the lady-killer. And if you have informed yourself in so surprising a manner as to the earl's private relations, you have done so, without doubt, only because your sagacious and subtle head has already guessed what commission I would give you with respect to the earl.
The defiant, half gallant way in which Verus, the dissipated lady-killer, had spoken to her had enraged him and filled him with anxiety, and long after the illustrious visitors had left Lochias he had thought of her again and again, and had resolved, if it were possible, to keep a watchful eye on the descendant of the benefactor of his family.
"Upon my soul," said Tom, "you have become quite a philosopher since we met. There is an old adage which says, 'no king is ever thoroughly gracious if he has not passed a year or two in dethronement; so I believe your regular lady-killer yourself for instance becomes a very quiet animal for being occasionally jilted.
"She is too big a devil," they said, "to care a fig for any man. She would laugh in the face of the mightiest lady-killer in London, and flout him as if he were a mercer's apprentice or a plough-boy. He does not live who could trap her." With most of them, the noble sport of chasing women was their most exalted pastime.
Sergeant Hamlin, or there will be something more serious than scratching done. I have learned how to fight in the past few years Heaven knows I have had opportunity and rather enjoy the excitement. How far would your word go with Molly, do you think? Or with the Major?" "That remains to be seen." "Does it? Oh, I understand. You must still consider yourself quite the lady-killer.
"Well, well, let's call in the cats! By the way, Miss Ra ... Ra ... Rambotham, are you aware that this son of mine is a professed lady-killer?" Laura and Bob went different shades of crimson. "Why has she got so red?" the child asked her mother, in an audible whisper. "Oh, CHUCK it, pater!" murmured Bob in disgust. "Fact, I assure you. Put not your trust in Robert!
Oh! it's useless for you to laugh that won't take with me. When we go before the mayor to get married, we'll see on whose side the laugh is!" At this he chuckled all the more, in order that he might show himself a lady-killer before madame, and the maid's annoyance then became real. "Oh!" said she, "we know all about that! You know, madame, he's still a booby at heart.
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