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There was nothing remarkable in his being so young and still au-fait to all the mysteries of life. Precocity is the privilege of the American, especially the native of New Orleans. A Creole at fifteen is a man. I felt satisfied that D'Hauteville about my own age knew far more of the world than I, who had been half my life cloistered within the walls of an antique university.
King, if he could be called young, could not have a safer and more sympathetic social adviser. Why are not all handsome women cordial, good-tempered, and well-bred! And there were the Ashleys clever mother and three daughters, au-fait girls, racy and witty talkers; I forget whether they were last from Paris, Washington, or San Francisco. Family motto: "Don't be dull."
King, if he could be called young, could not have a safer and more sympathetic social adviser. Why are not all handsome women cordial, good-tempered, and well-bred! And there were the Ashleys clever mother and three daughters, au-fait girls, racy and witty talkers; I forget whether they were last from Paris, Washington, or San Francisco. Family motto: "Don't be dull."
I made him au-fait as to my intentions, produced, as "mata-bicho," a bottle of gin, and sent a dash of costa-fina, to which a few yards of satin-stripe were thrown in. The gin was drunk with the usual greed, and the presents were received with the normal objections. "Why should not I, a king like Nessudikira, receive a 'dash' equal to his?" "He is my host, I pay him for bed and board!"
The interpreter to-night was far more au-fait very clever he seemed. Who was he? 'Mr. Fotheringham, said Theodora. 'The Crusader? Was it, indeed? said Lord St. Erme, eagerly. 'Is he here? I wish particularly to make his acquaintance. 'I believe he is gone, said Violet, pitying the unconscious victim, and at once amused, provoked, and embarrassed. 'You know him?
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