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There is some amusement among the little bourgeoises, who are glad enough to get rid of their commercial beaus; whose small talk, after a waltz, is about bills of exchange, mixed up with a little patriotism about their free city, and some chatter about what they call 'the fine arts; their awful collections of 'the Dutch school: school forsooth! a cabbage, by Gerard Dowl and a candlestick, by Mieris!
"Ain't it a pleasure, Mrs. Shongut, to have grand letters like that? Even with my little Jeannie, though it makes me so mad, still I " "But do you think my Renie will have any of them? 'Not, she says, 'if they was lined in gold." "I guess she got plenty beaus. Say, I ain't so blind that I don't see Sollie Spitz on your porch every " "Sollie Spitz! Ach, Mrs.
"Over and over 'Nita, Jua-a-n-ita, be my own fair bride'," she quavered obligingly. "Only not the words, of course, just the tune. That's why Nita bought the box, I suppose, because it played her namesake song " "Maybe one of her beaus gave it to her," Tracey suggested lightly, patting his wife's trembling shoulder. "Anyway, Dundee, the thing ran on and on, until it ran down, I suppose.
The song they were singing fell like a death-knell upon her ears; it was "'He Cometh Not, She Said." Eve Glenn, with Birdie upon her lap, sat on an adjoining sofa flirting desperately with the two or three devoted beaus; every one was discussing the prospect of the coming morrow. Her father had returned from Baltimore some time since.
The general idea seemed to be that she was one "who knew which side her bread was buttered." She would not be stopping away without notice unless she had done better for herself. Probably she had secretly married one of those swell beaus she was always boasting about! It was not yet time for Peter Rolls's doors to open to the world, but the girl had to finish her task before reading the note.
"YOU!" said Julia, smiling, and laying an affectionate hand on her young cousin's shoulder, as she stood beside her. "Why, how old are you, child?" "I'm sixteen nearly," Geraldine said stoutly. "Didn't you have beaus when you were sixteen?" "I suppose I did!" Julia admitted, smiling. "But you seem awfully young!" "I thought maybe you'd go to the store for me," said Mrs. Torney.
Gallants; beaus. So termed, of course, from their feathered hats. cf. Dryden's An Evening's Love , Act i, I, where Jacinta, referring to the two gallants, says: 'I guess 'em to be Feathers of the English Ambassador's train. cf. Pope's Sir Plume in The Rape of the Lock. Plumet more often = un jeune militaire. cf. Que les plumets seraient aimables Si leurs feux etaient plus constants!
Hear me, ye Scribling Beaus, Why will you in sheer Rhyme, without one stroke | Of Poetry, Ladies just Disdain provoke, | And address Songs to whom you never spoke? | In doleful Hymns for dying Felons fit, Why do you tax their Eyes, and blame their Wit? Unjustly of the Innocent you complain, 'Tis Bulkers give, and Tubs must cure your pain. Why in Lampoons will you your selves revile?
"Don't let them little devils of French girls fall in love with my dude in his uniform." Her pretense at pleasantry was almost more than he could bear. "Hear! Hear! Our mother thinks I'm a regular lady-killer! Hear that, Esther?" pinching her cheek. "You are, Leon only only, you don't know it." "Don't you bring down too many beaus while I'm gone, either, Miss Kantor!" "I won't, Leon."
"I wouldn't say that it would be good for a young lady with forty beaus and unable to choose among them, or for a frivolous young thing with three dances a week " "Oh, never more than two at the very height of social dissipation in Shelbyville!" she laughed. He lifted a finger, imposing silence, and a laugh lurked in his eyes.
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