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Mistresses See also Courtesanship, Prostitution. Abra favorite concubine of Solomon. [Br. Lit.: Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Benét, 3] to Elmer Gantry. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry] living with Anton Skrebensky without marriage license causes shock. [Br. Lit.: The Rainbow, Magill I, 800–802] of Jude Fawley; two children by him. [Br. Lit.: Jude the Obscure] mistress and benefactor to Joe Christmas. [Am. Lit.: Light in August] Montaigne’s “adopted daughter.” [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 633] King Arthur’s wife; Sir Launcelot’s mistress. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur]
mistress of the gamekeeper Mellors. [Br. Lit.: Lawrence Lady Chatterly’s Lover in Benét, 559] royal mistress and later wife of Louis XIV. [Fr. Hist.: Benét, 622] . Osmund’s mistress, by whom he has a daughter, Pansy. [Am. Lit.: James Portrait of a Lady in Magill I, 766] stage name of Mary Robinson, mistress of George IV when he was Prince of Wales. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 773] influential mistress of Louis XV. [Fr. Hist.: Benét, 802] mistress of many before marrying one of her lovers. [Br. Lit.: Roxana] paramour of narrator. [Fr. Lit.: Remembrance of Things Past] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Louis XIV was a very proud and self-confident man; he had such and such mistresses and such and such ministers and he ruled France badly. One might have thought at first they were servants come to accompany their mistresses home; but on looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants; their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine, the cut of their dress too striking. I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books. |
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