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said the pitiful beguiler, slipping through the doorway on tiptoe CHAPTER XIX BROKEN TIES After picking up a chair which, in his alarm, the fugitive had overturned in his flight, Mademoiselle Gontier herself opened the door leading to the drawing-room Come in, Henri!"

—The French Immortals Series — Complete

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One who or that which beguiles or deceives.

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Obsolete A trick or stratagem. tr. v. guiled, guil·ing, guiles beguiler n. — corrente SBL
The history of this lady is sufficiently well known, and, so far as I can ascertain, there is no historical warrant for supposing her to have been the mistress of Herbert, or the beguiler of Southampton into such a lapse of duty to his beloved Elizabeth Vernon as should inspire the expressions of Sonnets 134, 133, 144, which Mr. Massey says are written in the person of this lady to Lady Rich. — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875
That thy beguiler so thou couldst beguile, — Jerusalem Delivered
"I am beginning to know it, dear Mademoiselle!" said the pitiful beguiler, slipping through the doorway on tiptoe. — Zibeline — Complete
The beguiler appeared to hesitate. — The Prince of India — Volume 01