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Nor did he neglect social duties; old friends were invited to Earlescourt; neighbors were hospitably entertained. His name was mentioned with respect and esteem; the tide of popularity turned in his favor. As the spring drew near, Lord Earle became anxious for his daughters to make their debut in the great world. They could have no better chaperone than his own mother.
"Miss Allison is the best chaperone that can be imagined, just like a girl herself; and Allison and Kitty are as good as a circus any day. I'll wager it didn't take much persuading to make Stanley stay over. He hasn't eyes for anything or anybody but Allison." "He had eyes for Bernice Howe the night of Katie Mallard's musicale," said Betty. "He scarcely left her."
Apparently not! She wants instead a fortune-teller, a madcap like Ydo Carrothers. She spent the whole time this morning telling me how charming and fascinating Ydo was and what a fillip she gave to life. I told her frankly that I had been very thoroughly acquainted with Miss Ydo Carrothers from her youth up, and that she would be a handful for any one. I'd as lief undertake to chaperone a cyclone.
Butscha bowed without another word, and departed to find his master, in all the rapture of being taken into the service of his goddess. Half an hour later, Monsieur and Madame Latournelle came to fetch Modeste, who complained of a horrible toothache. "I really have not had the courage to dress myself," she said. "Well then," replied the worthy chaperone, "stay at home." "Oh, no!" said Modeste.
I tell you what it is, Isabel, I am not going to chaperone red eyes to the Duchess of Dartford's, so if you can't put a stop to this, I shall order the carriage home, and go on alone." Isabel meekly dried her eyes, sighing deeply as she did so. "I can have the pieces joined, I dare say; but it will never be the same cross to me again." "What have you done with the pieces?" irascibly asked Mrs.
"You look like a stranger here," he went on, in milder accents "a sort of elf who has lost her way out of fairyland! Is anyone with you?" "Yes," she answered, quickly "Miss Leigh " "Miss Leigh? Who is she? Your aunt or your chaperone?" She was more at her ease now, and laughed at his quick, brusque manner of speech.
Cary, the chaperone, a very young married woman of twenty-two or thereabouts; her husband, a youth of three years older, clean-shaven, light-haired, quiet-mannered; Miss Elizabeth Carpenter, who resembled her brother in the characteristics of good-looks, vivacious disposition and curly hair; an attendant satellite of the masculine persuasion called Morton; and last of all the girl whom Thorpe had already so variously encountered and whom he now met as Miss Hilda Farrand.
He was skilled enough in the ways of women not to demur, and he did as he was wanted so tactfully that Ida believed it to be his own idea. So, when the gymkhana ended and Noreen and her chaperone said good-bye, he felt that he had advanced a good deal in the girl's favour.
She had a most harmless delight in being fine; and our heroine's entree into life could not take place till after three or four days had been spent in learning what was mostly worn, and her chaperone was provided with a dress of the newest fashion.
Whispers and tender hand clasps are occasionally possible, however, for, tell it not in Gath! the chaperone was once young herself and at times looks the other way. That is, unless she is the girl's mother. Trust a parent for keeping two eyes and a pair of glasses on a girl!
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