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And De Ligne, who is considered the most elegant man in Vienna, actually trembled more than anybody else." "Actors trembling before their manager!" said Kaunitz, with a slight shrug. "Compose yourselves, gentlemen; the King of Prussia is too much absorbed in his own role to take any notice of you." "That is right," cried the emperor. "Encourage the debutantes, prince!"
I intend her to be the beauty of the season not one of the loveliest debutantes, or any rot of that kind but just the girl whom everybody will be crazy about. There shall be a mob wherever she appears, Di, I promise you that. There is no one in London who can work a thing of that kind better than your humble servant. And when once the girl is the talk of the town, all the rest is easy.
The famous Bertha, the terror of the débutantes, rushed to Brookfield, but she did not get there before the Brennans, and the result was a meeting of these families of girls in Mrs. Barton's drawing-room. Gladys was, however, the person chosen by God and herself to speak the wonderful words: 'Of course you have heard the news, Mrs. Barton? 'No, replied Mrs.
People often commend her, however, for her good nature to debutantes, and it is admitted that she may still ride with credit in 'affinity stakes' and occasionally win them. The Pool in the Desert.
You've been blowing in our money on your friends and you've let your customers go. If you can't hold the railroad business we'll get some fellow who can. Cut out your sewing-circle wine suppers and your box parties to the North Shore débutantes and get busy. You've got a week to make good. One week." There wasn't the slightest chance, and Mitchell told Miss Monon so when Thursday came around.
She had known debutantes who flatly refused to dance with married men or even to be introduced to them. California was her fate. No doubt of that. She might never see Europe again, for while it was all very well to be a guest once it would be quite impossible another time.
But Susan was greeting the host, who stood at the foot of the stairs, a fat, good-natured little man, beaming at everyone out of small twinkling blue eyes, and shaking hands with the debutantes while he spoke to their mothers over their shoulders. "Hello, Brownie!" Ella said, affectionately. "Where's everybody?" Mr. Browning flung his fat little arms in the air.
There was George Rerick, who stuttered to the débutantes as he had stuttered to their mothers before them. Furman Fellowes, who told fairy tales to impressionable young girls, and who would presently get drunk in Sixth Avenue. Jack Rodney, M. F. H., and Alphabet Jones, the novelist, in search of points. As Eden entered the vestibule of her box the curtain had parted on the second act.
Within its pale but sanitary walls one finds a noisy medley of chorus girls, college boys, debutantes, rakes, filles de joie a not unrepresentative mixture of the gayest of Broadway, and even of Fifth Avenue. In the early morning of May the second it was unusually full. Over the marble-topped tables were bent the excited faces of flappers whose fathers owned individual villages.
David bowed to the wife of a Standard Oil director in a passing limousine, and one of the season's prettiest débutantes, who was walking; and because he was only twenty-four, and his mother was very, very ambitious for him, he wondered if the tear smudge on the face of his companion had been evident from the sidewalk, and decided that it must have been.
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