chaperoner

Updated: May 4, 2025

This, then, was what he heard: ". . . Now, Mizz Emmy Lou, you mout jes' ez well hush up an' save yore breath. You knows an' I knows, even ef he don't know it, dat 'tain't proper fur no young man to be cotein' a young lady right out on a front po'ch widout no chaperoner bein' clost by. Quality folks don't do sech ez dat.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - From Place to Place