taxed

She taxed her husband with his intended crime, and a furious scene followed in which he showed her for the first time that she had a rival in his love.

His eyes acquired that quality which in the first moment of strong emotion enables them to see distinctly, and which afterwards fails from being too much taxed.

He remembered that Morcerf had been taxed at 4,000 crowns, and as he considered himself of much greater importance than Morcerf he fixed his own price at 8,000 crowns.