He is still a great seducer but simply cannot play the romantic writer doomed to inevitable tragedy.
2
One of the heroines rescues herself from a ravisher by blinding him with a hair-pin, and as she escapes the seducer apostrophizes the blood which trickles from his eye, and the weapon which has wounded it, in a speech forty verses long.
3
Mademoiselle Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this story to him, her seducer.
4
Cautiously she moved forward, allowing herself a peek at this amalgam of evil, this seducer of virgins, who had so ravaged her body.