What matters is not substance, but consistency:“Bring with you, then, as the principal thing, ignorance; secondly recklessness, and thereto effrontery and shamelessness.

M. Valenod was what is called, a hundred leagues from Paris, a _faraud_; this is a species marked by coarseness and natural effrontery.

'You must admit that he shows a very rare presumption, indeed effrontery, in appearing here.

But, as is commonly said, one evil calls up another and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of one still greater, and so it proved in my case; for my worthy servant, until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely spot, moved more by his own villainy than by my beauty, sought to take advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him, and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, began to make overtures to me; and finding that I replied to the effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use violence.

Camilla was uneasy at this, dreading lest it might prove the means of endangering her honour, and asked whether her intrigue had gone beyond words, and she with little shame and much effrontery said it had; for certain it is that ladies' imprudences make servants shameless, who, when they see their mistresses make a false step, think nothing of going astray themselves, or of its being known.

"He is quite young and of no descent, but he has made his way by his cool effrontery, his natural taste, and his extravagance of speech.

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