Mrs. Fonda, who was tall and dark and distinguished looking, and too wise in her unprotected position to annul the attentions of Time with those artifices which are rather a pity but quite condonable in the married woman, was handsomely dressed in black net embroidered with gold, and received with an aunt on either side of her.
"Senator North"
Gertrude Atherton
Her nationality-her history-furnished adequate excuse for an attitude not condonable in a European equally cultured.
"The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu"
Sax Rohmer