Indeed, he sacrificed all--even his honor, for he suffered himself to be gulled by her wiles as profoundly as he was infatuated by her charms.
At this point, as became a young woman telling of a relative's iniquity, Kaiserina glazed the facts and gave a perversion.

It was later, therefore, that Felix Clemenceau learned in detail the whole mournful tale of a beautiful wanton's ingrained perfidy and a loving husband's blind confidence.

The end was inevitably tragical.

Lergins was decoyed by the countess to Paris, where she languished like a shark out of water.

The sculptor's income did not come up to her dreams of luxury, any more than those she inspired in her daughter.