Just now there was no hint of the coquette in her; she was just a very grave-eyed girl, as serious in her tête-á-tête with an interesting male as she could have been were she sixty years old.

But the Whaup himself was troubled by the acquaintance of Coquette with Lord Earlshope, which, from a casual meeting, developed with startling rapidity.

"Why do you make coquette of your horse?" asked a French master of a pretty girl who was coaxingly calling her mount "a naughty, horrid thing," and casting glances fit to distract a man on the ungrateful creature's irresponsive crest.

The picture represents the coquette at her window, laughing at Sheik Chenan as he is driving his pigs before her.

She had been a coquette from her earliest days; had long learned the value of her bright eyes, and tried experiments in coquetry upon rustics and country 'squires until she should have opportunity to conquer a larger world in later years.

He has written a little comedy in the style of a "proverb;" andas every one who writes now constantly brings on the stage some real person or some actual facthe has introduced a coquette into it, and he reads it confidentially to a few ladies who are very kind to him.

"I call upon the leaves of the trees, and all the drops in the river, and all the light in the air to bear witness that I have won Coquette for my wife.

According to your idea, she has neither decided for nor against gallantry, and what you clearly see in her conduct is, that she is a more logical coquette than other women.

Those sovereign charms with strictest care employ; Nor give the generous pain, the worthless joy: With his own form acquaint the forward fool, Shown in the faithful glass of Ridicule; Teach mimic Censure her own faults to find, No more let coquettes to themselves be blind, So shall Belinda's charms improve mankind.

Morgianna was a coquette by nature, and a spoilt child.