According to her, amours and quarrels were carried on calmly and almost good-temperedly.

Mr. Walsh was of an amorous complexion, and in one of his letters mentions three of his amours, in pretty singular terms.

The Abbé Gedoyn was her last lover so far as there is any account of her amours.

The bravery of difficulties does so dazzle his eyes that he prosecutes them with as little success as the tailor did his amours to Queen Elizabeth.

Francesco, smarting under his father's strictures in respect to his amours with Bianca Buonaventuri, and resenting his constant interference in his private affairs no less than in his public duties, was only too ready to give ear to any scandal which he might turn to good account.

intelligence in conversation, and quite naturally fond of admiration and amours."

The very phrase evokes and parades a pageant of amours!

Liszt, that Hungarian rhapsodist in amours, was he not also an abbé?

And, indeed, it is impossible to conceive of the amours of Zeus (or Jove), for instance, with Leda, Europa or Danaë as having been first conceived during an age marked by the poetic genius and comparative culture evinced in the most ancient epics.

But when he threw off the spell, he was himself again, and could write to his mother of still new amours: "I have filled my cup to the brim by falling in love the day before yesterday.

Can we then blame harmony and melody for the humming-bird "amours" of the Abbe Liszt,for the many women he made material love to from his early youth,for the very dubious honesty of his bearing toward the Comtesse d'Agoult and the Princess Wittgenstein, with whom he debated the formalities of marriage without hesitating over the actualities?

The rose being dedicated by Cupid to Harpocrates, the god of Silence, to engage him to conceal the amours of Venus, was an emblem of Silence; whence to present it or hold it up to any person in discourse, served instead of an admonition, that it was time for him to hold his peace; and in entertaining rooms it was customary to place a rose above the table, to signify that what was there spoken should be kept private.

" Hearing this, I said to her: "Whenever you have an opportunity, dwell on the king's licentiousness; find out, if possible, his scandalous amours; make much of them; tell her how other women have behaved in similar circumstances; in short, do everything to stir up her indignation and jealousy against him; and, as soon as possible, let me know what she says.

Amours romantiques.

<pb id='072.png' /> CRONIN, A. J. Trois amours (Three loves)

Poor girls, he says, would often get their marriage portion by having amours with several young men.

Then he tells his son Telemachus and the swineherd and neatherd to "go and lead forth these serving-maids out of the stately hall to a spot between the roundhouse and the neat courtyard wall, and smite them with your long swords till you take life from all, so that they may forget their secret amours with the suitors.

But this scene (Iliad, XIV., 153 seq.) is innocuous compared with the shameless description of the adulterous amours of Ares and Aphrodite in the Odyssey (VIII., 266-365), in presence of the gods, who treat the matter as a great joke.

While still in the full light of the honeymoon he began to indulge in flirtations and amours, and poor Clarence, during the important prenatal period of life, received the mark of suspicion and the tendency to hypersensitiveness which then dominated the mother.

The ROSE, (Rosa) the Queen of Flowers, was given by Cupid to Harpocrates, the God of Silence, as a bribe, to prevent him from betraying the amours of Venus.

Krishna is said to have fascinated the milkmaids of Brindabun by playing on his celebrated flute under a Baku'la tree on the banks of the Jumna, which is, therefore, invariably alluded to in all the Sanscrit and vernacular poems relating to his amours with those young women.

Indeed it is chiefly of simple-hearted, chivalrous-minded men like Mason that it can be with general truth observed 'On revient toujours à ses premiers amours.'

In the contest with Jefferson, Parton insists that Burr acted honorably; in the duel with Hamilton, Burr was the injured party; in his amours he was not a bad man; so that, although we are told that Burr had faults, we look in vain for any exhibition of them.

AMOURS DE VOYAGE.

ma Lisette, Tu m'as trompé toujours; Je veux, Lisette, Boire à nos amours.