Hesperie imagines her fatal charms occasion a hundred disappointments in the world, but prides herself on her perfect insensibility.

Weary of life, she did not regret the loss of those fatal charms which had been to her a source of such misery.

The rumour was spread broadcast by jealous and disappointed women who saw their menfolk succumb to the fatal charms of the Maid of Bacharach.

"I do not credit myself with such fatal charms," said I.