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Updated: May 11, 2025
Said the Débutante to her Soldier Boy in the moonlight, "To Hell with the chaperone, War is War...." Somebody lost Eighty Hundred Billion Dollars trying to build aeroplanes out of Flypaper and a new kind of Cement.
"Don't you wish you were with them?" questioned Olga. "It would be much more fun than staying here to chaperone me." Nick looked quizzical. "Oh, there's plenty of fun to be had out of that too," he assured her. "I take a lively interest in you, my child; always have." "You're a darling," said Olga, raising her face impulsively. "I shall write and tell Dad what care you are taking of us all."
But, surely, if you cannot live in peace with him, there must be others other relations who would be glad to chaperone you!" "No," says the girl, shaking her head sadly. "For one thing, I have no relations at least, none who could look after me; and, for another, by my father's will, I must stay with Uncle George until my marriage." "Until your marriage!" Sir Maurice laughs. "Forgive me!
Belle's mother had arrived in good season, for she was to chaperone the party bound for Logwood, at the head of Tallahaska Lake. She passed the word at ten o'clock, and the girls got their hand-baggage and ran down to the road, where Old Dolliver waited for them with his big sleigh.
When you gave ze histoire of ze earrings to your Madame Long on ze steamer, 'Clément' ha! ha! heard it all. Clément whose name is Jules live very mooch by his wits; and he saw that these diamonds must be his that you were two dear leetle geese pardon! ready to have ze feathers plucked. How to get at you he did not know: you were always with that chaperone with sharp eyes.
Dumay, now actually ferocious, the notary, in the character of a man bound to ferret out a mystery, Madame Latournelle, the deceived chaperone, and Madame Dumay, alarmed for her husband's safety, became at once a set of spies, and Modeste from this day forth was never left alone for an instant.
There was no need of anybody's trying to make Carlotta see. Love had opened her eyes. The two fathers smiled at each other, both a little glad and a little sad. "Brother Lambert," said Mr. Cressy. "Suppose you and I ride down the hill. I rather think this spot belongs to the children." "So it seems," agreed Stuart Lambert. "We will leave Lizzie for chaperone. I think there will be a moon later."
It was a misfortune to me that my mother never would go into society during the absence of my father, nor, indeed, at any time, except, perhaps, to a dinner party; but I had no difficulty in finding a chaperone, as we knew many people. I used to go to the theatre in the morning, and ask to see the plan of the house for the evening, that I might know which ladies I could accompany to their boxes.
Now I call that superstition." The next day it was a still worse story. "Well, my dear! and how are you? My lady sent me in to sit a bit with you, while Mr. Horner looks out some papers for me to copy. Between ourselves, Mr. Steward Horner does not like having me for a clerk. It is all very well he does not; for, if he were decently civil to me, I might want a chaperone, you know, now poor Mrs.
He sat down with his back to her, and for a time he did not dare to look at her again. When at last he did, she and Bindon and two other people were standing up to go. The others were her father and her chaperone. He sat as if incapable of action until the four figures were remote and small, and then he rose up possessed with the one idea of pursuit.
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