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Updated: June 28, 2025
Crowded into the large church, the students, their families, friends, aunts, uncles and chaperones, attended all the girls of sixteen or twenty who wanted to show their summer dresses or fresh complexions, and there, for an hour or two, in a heat that might have melted bronze, they listened to an Orator and a Poet in clergyman's gowns, reciting such platitudes as their own experience and their mild censors permitted them to utter.
The floral offerings, this evening, were handsomer than usual, having come from M. La Tour's paternal gardens. Miss Cassandra and I have bouquets of sweet peas of exquisite shades of mauve, purple and white, quite suitable for chaperones, while for Lydia was reserved a choice posy of the blue forget-me-nots, that the French adore, surrounded by mignonette.
We had fulfilled our duties as chaperones to the fullest extent, and had also got our own two ways in the end, which is always comfortin' to a woman. We found Miss Huff settled in a pleasant street in a good comfortable home, not so very fur away from the Fair ground.
Here we are all to ourselves with no one to bother us, with no chaperone, or chaperone's husband either, which is generally worse. Why is it, my dear," he asked gayly, in a tone that he considered affectionate and husbandly, "that the attractive chaperones are always handicapped by such stupid husbands, and vice versa?"
Will there be a chaperone with her?" "No!" thundered Billy. "How is a girl allowed to go to the theater with you without a chaperone?" inquired Rex incredulously. "This is New York." Strong brought down his fist. "Death to chaperones! A bas les chaperones! Don't you think girl's mother trust her to me? Look at me! I'll be chaperone to tha' girl, and father, 'n' mother, 'n' a few uncles and aunts."
I might as well motor down, so it doesn't matter about trains, and the motor can come back for you." "Shall I bring any one else?" his eyes searched her face. "Just as you like." She leant forward and casually stirred the fire. "Anyhow, there is sure to be plenty of room at this time of year." "Plenty of room, but not plenty of available companion chaperones," with a little laugh.
They have heard me talk so much about Max that they think almost as much of him as I do, and they will be glad to meet his sister." Mrs. Hill, a handsome, dignified lady who was one of the chaperones of the prom, received Grace warmly, while Beatrice Hill, an extremely pretty, smartly gowned girl, made her feel at home immediately. "You came with Sid, didn't you?" she whispered.
It seemed there could be very few mothers or chaperones at Crystal Bay, for even in marketing hours it was always the girls with baskets, or the boys with huge paper bags, who were encountered.
Down the line of chairs from his position, Lane saw the chaperones of the Prom, no doubt mothers of some of these girls. Lane wondered at them with sincere and persistent amaze. If they were respectable, and had even a slight degree of intelligence, how could they look on at this dance with complacence?
At the present time there are few people at a public ball besides the dancers and their chaperones, or relations in some degree interested in them.
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