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I shall tell him, when I see him, that no girl worth having would be sitting over there at supper with four moving-picture actors without a chaperon. The whole proceeding is scandalous. I have noticed," she added, "that it is the girls from quiet suburban towns who are really most prone to defy the conventions when the chance comes." We dozed for a short time. Then Tish sat up suddenly.
Forth is no chaperon. Even you understand that. 'Oh, I can get an old man don't be afraid, said Rose. 'Or must I have and old woman, aunt? The lady raised her eyelids slowly on Rose, and thought: If you were soundly whipped, my little madam, what a good thing it would be for you. And that good thing Mrs. Shorne was willing to do for Rose.
'Why wasn't Miss Bremerton doing something for the war? Greek indeed! when there was this fearful thing going on! And in the evening air, as the girl turned her face towards the moonrise, she seemed to hear the booming of the Flanders guns. And now Miss Bremerton was to do the housekeeping, and to play tutor and chaperon to her. Pamela resented both.
Then, when they began to think that they must scream if they were forced to wait another minute, their chaperon rose of her own accord and with a decided movement flicked the dust from her skirt. "I think we have waited long enough," she hazarded, to which each girl said a fervent though silent "amen." "I suppose we shall have to follow Mollie's suggestion and gather sticks and stones.
"I am my master's faithful old gold pen. I've served him three long years, and drawn since then Thousands of funny women and droll men ..." MISS GRUNDISON, JUNIOR. "There goes Lucy Holyroyd, all alone in a Boat with young Snipson as usual. So impudent of them!" HER ELDER SISTER. "Yes; how shocking if they were Upset and Drowned without a Chaperon, you know!"
That she was a little trying he knew perfectly, but his sense of fair play and kinship resolutely turned a deaf ear to the half-spoken pleas of the girls, that he would give her instead a cosy home of her own, and procure a younger and brighter chaperon for them; and she had now become a fixture.
As there might be difficulty in recognition if she came to the station with a chaperon as strange to him as herself, it would be well, he suggested, that each pinned a red rose on her dress. Then he would look out for two ladies with two roses.
Van for a chaperon and give a party to Europe. Unfortunately I can't get her in readiness promptly enough; unless," he added hopefully, "Miss Carstow can postpone her sailing-day?" When Benton had straightened out his car for the run to the city, and the road had begun to slip away under the tires, he turned to McGuire, his chauffeur. "McGuire," he inquired, "where is the runabout?"
As they landed at Murray Bay they saw a salmon floundering in a net, bought it, and carried it with them to the house of a man named Chaperon where they had engaged lodgings. Here, says Dr. Henry, the sensation of being clean and comfortable in their host's "pleasant parlour" was delicious.
"The day after to-morrow I will mark with a white stone. To dine with M. Savarin is an event to a man who covets distinction." "Such compliments reconcile an author to his trade. You deserve the best return I can make you. You will meet la belle Isaura. I have just engaged her and her chaperon.
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