She would have to act a coquette at first to give herself a countenance; and who would not pardon the girl for putting on a mask?
The offended coquette was implacable, and disdained alike his excuses and protestations of devotion.
But the beautiful Gabrielli was then a little on the wane both in personal loveliness and charm of voice; and, though her fame as a coquette and an artist had preceded her, she met with an indifference that was almost languor.
I wouldn't give a pin to make fine men in love with me--every coquette can do that, and the pain you give these creatures is very trifling.
My dear Sister,--I congratulate you and Mr. Vernon on being about to receive into your family the most accomplished coquette in England.
My conduct has been equally guarded from the first, and I never behaved less like a coquette in the whole course of my life, though perhaps my desire of dominion was never more decided.
A young fellow ought to have a certain fund of coquetry; which should make him try all the means of pleasing, as much as any coquette in Europe can do.
We were still laughing, I am sure, when the old coquette was a long way from the house.
How could I have forgotten her so long, and all for a coquette who certainly did not give a thought to me!
Could it be possible that she was nothing more or less than a coquette who had been amusing herself at my expense?
Lady Lyndwood mischievously, with the pleasure even a good-natured coquette feels in seeing another woman make the least of herself.
I do not take your view of it; better for her to coquette with Marius than to put that paragraph in the Gazette--that was the unforgivable thing.
A feeling of shame had made her dread this meeting, which the most hardened coquette could never witness without embarrassment.
But buzzing in his admiration around 794 each sweet flower like the veriest male coquette of a bee, he is just unstable enough also to tantalize the fair recipients of his attentions.
So the false name has been given the photographer, he thinks; and he makes up his mind that Miss Lloyd, though unquestionably very charming, is about as profound a coquette as he is ever likely to meet.
And I left her alone, to act the coquette to herself.
I was intended for something better, but now it is too late; a coquette I have lived, and a coquette I shall die: I speak frankly to you.
Princess Helen's Coquette (how proud he ought to be of a name like that!
Like the arch coquette of this land of gaslight and glowing colors?
He had quite forgotten that this self-possessed, clear-eyed, pale girl was the madcap coquette whose caprices and griefs had alternately fascinated and moved him on the previous evening.
His hero is Orlando, whom he supposes (though married at the time to Aldebella) to be in love with Angelica, a fascinating coquette from Cathay, whom Orlando had brought to France.
Certainly, Mr. Hardie," said she, within a modest composure a young coquette might have envied under the circumstances.
In truth she appears to have been the most finished coquette of her own or any other age.
She was enough of a coquette not absolutely to destroy the hopes of an admirer, but managed to keep him dangling in her train.
Indeed, Miss Arabella, having accomplished her object in showing Miss Innis that she could monopolize Hiram if she chose, would have been quite ready to play the coquette and assume the dignified.
La Coquette herself, with her paniers occupying nearly a third of the fan, demurely takes her tea.
I need not add that a Fan is either a Prude or Coquette according to the nature of the person who bears it.
