how elementary his own principles had always been. He passed for a young man who had not been afraid of risks, and he knew that his secret love-affair with poor silly Mrs. Thorley Rushworth had not been too secret to invest him with a becoming air of adventure. But Mrs. Rushworth was \"that kind of woman\"; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and far more attracted by the secrecy and peril of the affair than by such charms and
how elementary his own principles had always been. He passed for a young man who had not been afraid of risks, and he knew that his secret love-affair with poor silly Mrs. Thorley Rushworth had not been too secret to invest him with a becoming air of adventure. But Mrs. Rushworth was \"that kind of woman\"; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and far more attracted by the secrecy and peril of the affair than by such charms and