I'm only warning you on the presumption that they don't seem to be able to help it, either.

Remember, my boy, you are going out there to offset, not to beset, Lady Deppingham." Chase learned more of the attractive Lady Agnes and her court before he left England.

Common report credited her with being dangerously pretty, scandalously unwise, eminently virtuous, distractingly adventurous in the search for pleasure, charmingly unscrupulous in her treatment of men's hearts, but withal, sufficiently clever to dodge the consequences of her widespread though gentle iniquities.

He was quite prepared to admire her, and yet equally resolved to avoid her.

Something told him that he was not of the age and valor of St.Anthony.He went out to Japat with a stern resolution to lead himself not into temptation; to steer clear of the highway of roses and stick close to the thorny paths below.