He enjoyed also a reputation of another sort.

There was about his gaudy, swaggering raffishness something that the women found singularly alluring.

That he should boast openly of his bonnes fortunes did not seem strange to Captain Blood; what he might have found strange was that there appeared to be some measure of justification for these boasts.
It was current gossip that even Mademoiselle d'Ogeron, the Governor's daughter, had been caught in the snare of his wild attractiveness, and that Levasseur had gone the length of audacity of asking her hand in marriage of her father.

M.d'Ogeron had made him the only possible answer.

He had shown him the door.