The life which Rousseau lived at the Hermitagereveries in the forest, luxurious dinners, and sentimental friendshipsled to a passionate love-affair with the Comtesse d'Houdetot, a sister-in-law of his patroness Madame d'Épinay,a woman not only married, but who had another lover besides.

So she immediately repaired to the large garden, and quietly made her way to the back of the arbor, in which advantageous position she heard the whole of Lawrence's story of his love-affair with Miss March; Annie's remarks upon the same, and the facts of this young lady's proposed confession in regard to her marriage with Mr Null, and her engagement to Mr Croft.

There was always one claimant contending against another claimant, this heir against that heir, as though the destinies of nationality could be settled by a strip of parchment or a love-affair with a princess.

The reasons have not been recorded: probably pecuniary embarrassment, the yeasty state of his religious and political ideas, and impatience or despondency over his love-affair with Mary Evans, combined to precipitate his flight; what we know is that he ran away from Cambridge and in December, 1793, enlisted as a dragoon in the army.

A maddening love-affair with his landlady's daughter, Anna Katharina Schönkopf, revived the dying lyric flame, and he began to write verses in the gallant erotic vein then and there fashionableverses that tell of love-lorn shepherds and shepherdesses, give sage advice to girls about keeping their innocence, and moralize on the ways of this wicked world.

He says the reason he's always failed before is that he's had to go and mix a love-affair up with it somehow.

" "A regular previous love-affair," thought Frank, and expected her to return, bringing a small lot of erotic jewelry to be returned to Chipworth, as the false-hearted donor thereof.

The pretty fiction of our sudden marriage being a renewal of an old love-affair is more of an untruth than I am used to letting pass, and yet has enough truth in it to make it reality, since you were the hero of my girlish dreams.

He is forty at least, and can have had no love-affair for the last fifteen years.

The feminine interest in a possible, probable, or even improbable love-affair always surprises the average mansurprises, and sometimes annoys him very much.

And above all, of course, the hero of a famous love-affair, such as ours has become, with those damned poets everywhere making rhymes about my fidelity and devotion, has to preserve appearances.

Indeed, 'tis almost more than I can stand without laughing," went on Mr. Morris, "to see the manly forbearance with which he treats the advances of some of these grandes dames, who think nothing of taking the initiative in a love-affair.

even adds a dark contribution of his own, the suggestion of an unhappy love-affair of Charlotte's.

Sir Wemyss Reid had suggested a love-affair in Brussels to account for Charlotte's depression, which was unfavourable to his theory of the happy life.

Mr. Mackay draws back the veil with a gesture and revealsthe love-affair.

Do you think that John Saltram has some secret love-affair upon his mind?" "I have some reason to suspect as much, from words that he has dropped during his delirium.

Anything approaching fair weather always put our men in good spirits; and the muleteers squatted in a circle, by a fire near a pile of packs, and listened to a long monotonously and rather mournfully chanted song about a dance and a love-affair.

Unable to keep his feelings locked up in his bosom, he reveals them to his companion, the jester, but afterward, fearing he might tell his wives about this love-affair, he says to him: "Of course there is no truth in the notion that I coveted this girl Sakuntala.

The existence and nature of the dramatis personae who come on to the scene when we have made our exit have been determined by some frivolous love-affair.

You were her confidant in her love-affair with Duroc.

I remember particularly how he touched upon the love-affair which was supposed to have so much to do with Alford's break-up, and how he dismissed it to its proper place in the story.

I might give zest to this dull love-affair by telling you that Mr. Minorkey opposed the match.

Without a shadow of previous flirtation with any man born of womanwithout any of the ups and downs, the ins and outs of an ordinary love-affair, I place my fate in Sir Roger's hands.

He spoke to her just as a kind, wise, thoughtful uncle ought to speak to a niece caught up into her first love-affair.

That sudden and ill-timed love-affair may be compared to this: you take boys somewhere for a walk; the walk is jolly and interestingand suddenly one of them gorges himself with oil paint.