jestress

Newcome, Bart., even to that of the celebrated jestress!

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"Yes," answered the _plaisant_, apparently speaking to the jestress, whose face wore a puzzled expression.

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Had not Jeanne, queen of Charles I, possessed her jestress, Artaude de Puy,

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If the casual glance saw first the blond head, the creamy arms and sunny blue eyes of the princess, it was apt to linger with almost a start of wonder upon the striking figure of the jestress, a nocturnal touch in a pearly picture.

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The fool reined the horse, which for some time had been moving painfully, and at that abrupt cessation of motion the jestress looked up with a start.

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Fainter sounded the warning of the jestress in the ears of the duke's fool; so faint it became but a weak admonition.

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Thoughtfully the duke continued to observe the jestress.

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"To think the jestress, Jacqueline, should turn out the daughter of that traitor, the Constable of Dubrois," she observed, keenly.

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Her story recurred to him; she was no longer a nameless jestress; an immeasurable distance separated a mere _plaisant_ from the survivor of one of the noblest, if most unfortunate, families of France.

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The narrator paused and furtively surveyed the jestress.

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