Wickham, the all-conquering young lady-killer of the story, is a favourite character of the novelist He figures as Willoughby in "Sense and Sensibility," as Crawford in "Mansfield Park," as Churchill in "Emma," andto a certain extentas Wentworth in "Persuasion."

Ain't he the lady-killer?

"No one ever before accused me of being a lady-killer.

A professional lady-killer, a noted Don Juan, has been idly making love to a country maiden, whose heart is full of innocent idealisms.

You are too good a man, and women don't like good men.' Hubert laughed, and without a trace of offended vanity in his voice he said, 'I don't profess to be much of a lady-killer.'

There must have been something more in him than in a mere idol of the dandies, like Brummell, or a mere irresistible buck and lady-killer, like Lauzun.

The lady-killer was stroking his mustache affectedly, looking from time to time at his cloth suit in order to smooth out the wrinkles and brush off the specks of dust.

" "Oh, it's me that's the lady-killer, sir," grinned Riley.

I was no egotist, no lady-killer, but I recognized now that I loved this girl, and had read in her eyes the message of hope.

" "Nonsense," Lillian said, brusquely, "the man is just an ordinary common lady-killer of the type that infests these hotels, and ought to be horsewhipped at sight.

Our mother thinks I'm a regular lady-killer!

He thought the better of himself because Florence loved him,not with the vulgar self-applause of a man who fancies himself to be a lady-killer and therefore a grand sort of fellow, but in conceiving himself to be something better than he had hitherto believed, simply because he had won the heart of this one special girl.

He was very handsome, a tremendous lady-killer!

Here was a hero in humble lifea lady-killer in his own little sphere.

"Quite an elegant compliment, and worthy of an accomplished lady-killer!

" I looked and recognised the Count de Rivarol, a tall young man, an élégant of the first water, a curled darling of society, a professed lady-killer, whom I had met many a time in attendance on Madame de Marignan.