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Updated: June 20, 2025
He was continually making jests upon the daughters of Eve; these temptresses, these diabolical allies of the Serpent.
On perceiving Giovanni and his companions they became silent, but when they had passed them they again began to laugh and jest; they jested about Giovanni, who, they said, might be the Saint between two temptresses. A great cloud with silver edges, the first of a whole fleet, sailing towards the west, hid the sun.
A bridegroom ought to bring to his bride, above all things else, an eager heart. And that Jim could not bring. He had been in his time a man and had sowed his measure of wild oats more than a poor man could, less than a rich man might, far less than his unusual opportunities and the greedy throngs of temptresses encouraged.
I will defend myself. It is she who has placed herself between us; she has won Antony. But no! Why should I blind myself? Time and the charms he steals from women are far more powerful than twenty such little temptresses. Then, there are the circumstances which prevented my concealing the defects that wounded the eyes of this most spoiled of all spoiled mortals. All these things aided the singer.
With all their warnings they had not warned him, these grave men, these instructors of youth, who had never known any world except their little world of books, who ranged women into two camps, one in which they held a docile Tennysonian place, as chaste adorners of the sacred home, mothers of children, man's property, insipid angel housekeepers of his demure middle age; the other where they were depicted as cheap, vulgar temptresses, on a level with the wine cup and the gambling table.
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