He succumbed to her fascinations at once, and proposed, I believe, within two weeks after seeing her; but though she accepted him, few of those who saw them together thought her affections very much engaged till Franklin suddenly appeared in town, when her whole manner underwent a change, and she became so Sparklingly and irresistibly beautiful that her avowed lover became doubly enslaved, and Franklin-Well, there is evidence to prove that he was not insensible to her charms either; that, in spite of her engagement to his brother and the attitude which honor bade him hold towards his prospective sister-in-law, he lost his head for a short time at least, and under her seductions I do not doubt, for she was a double-faced woman according to general repute, went so far as to express his passion in a letter of which I heard much before I was so fortunate as to obtain a sight of it.
"That Affair Next Door"
Anna Katharine Green
As soon as she appeared, the eyes of all the men in the court turned her way, and remained fixed on her white face, her Sparklingly-brilliant black eyes and the swelling bosom under the prison cloak.
"Resurrection"
Maude, Louise Shanks