Word: mistressing
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Privileged Sleep. While she died in 1954, aged 81, the people of Paris paid homage at her door for three days. Mistress and archinterpreter of the animal kingdom, she died a revered national institution, yet fulfilling "in every way the wish that she herself had many years before expressed...
...methods Author Bentley uses in all seven. In Revenge Upon Revenge, she sets three young men on a bloody course of vengeance in obedience to the private laws of a medieval feud between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology...
...love stories, the summer dresses seem to have faded a little. Then We Were Three flattens its triangle in the familiar way, with one of the lovers left out in the cold; In the French Style contains the despair of the aging bohemian as his last and best mistress takes refuge in marriage; Voyage Out, Voyage Home brings some fresh insights to that sturdy chestnut, the doomed romance between a healthy lover and a tubercular...
...handling of the moments when she is slapped and bewhored by Othello is deeply affecting, and her dying words most touching. Olive Deering does well as the loose Bianca. But Sada Thompson's Emilia is too Desdemona-like; she ought to be sharply contrasted with her mistress--less refined, more common and blunt, at times even vulgar. I suspect the result would have been better if the Misses Thompson and Deering had exchanged roles...
...Everything's All Right." That evening-as the doctor and his mistress later told the story-Marie-Claire Evenou complained of a toothache, and her husband affectionately suggested a sleeping pill to ease the pain. As soon as she was asleep, Dr. Evenou rang the phone in Simone's apartment twice. A moment later, his mistress stood beside him in her stocking feet. Dr. Evenou uncovered his wife's breast. "Strike here!" he said. Simone struck, and Marie-Claire woke in a shock. "Simone," she cried. "No. No." Dr. Evenou held her close in his arms. "There...