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At other dancers they looked with a kind of airy scorn they, the light brigade, the heroes of a hundred Kensington 'hops' from whom alone could the right manner and smile and step be hoped. After this the stream came fast; chaperones silting up along the wall facing the entrance, the volatile element swelling the eddy in the larger room.
He had invited a number of his gayer friends and ladies exclusively from so-called artistic circles. So far all was quite Parisian. Only the journalists who might, next morning, have proclaimed the glory of the festivity to the world these were excluded. Berlin, for various reasons, did not seem an appropriate place for that. It was a rather dreary sham orgy. Even chaperones were present.
All the girls stood grouped together at one side of the doors, the men at the other, and the chaperones in dark dresses, smiling rather foolishly, walked with little careful steps over the polished floor towards the stage. "This is my little country cousin Leila. Be nice to her. Find her partners; she's under my wing," said Meg, going up to one girl after another.
At other dancers they looked with a kind of airy scorn they, the light brigade, the heroes of a hundred Kensington 'hops' from whom alone could the right manner and smile and step be hoped. After this the stream came fast; chaperones silting up along the wall facing the entrance, the volatile element swelling the eddy in the larger room.
Scarcely one of the dowagers and chaperones bidden to it, but cast a longing eye to the heir, for their daughters' sakes; scarcely a daughter but experienced a fluttering of the heart, as the fond fancy presented itself that she might be singled out for the chosen partner of Sir Edmund Hautley for the night, at any rate; and perhaps for the long night of the future.
The two girls were standing near their two chaperones when Tom came up, and with an odd sort of shyness, asked, "Are you engaged for the next dance, Miss Miss Smith?"
"Now as soon as you carry that thing home," observed Alexia, glancing at the white parcel in Polly's hand, "I hope you'll come with us girls. That's what I ran after you for." "What girls?" asked Polly. "Why, Philena and the Cornwalls; we are going to have a sleighing party to-night, and a supper at Lilly Drexell's. Mrs. Cornwall chaperones the thing." Polly was surprised to feel her heart bound.
There are only three things I am afraid of bumble-bees, scarlet fever, and chaperones. Ugh! the clucking, evil-minded monsters, finding wrong in everything, seeing sin in the most innocent actions, and suggesting sin yes, causing sin by their diseased imaginings." "Phew!" Sheldon leaned back from the table in mock fear. "You needn't worry about your bread and butter," he ventured.
It is, he thinks, clearly necessary that a gentleman possessed of the average allowance of common sense, should accompany Miss Verinder to the scene of, what we will venture to call, the proposed exhibition. For want of a better escort, Mr. Bruff himself will be that gentleman. So here is poor Miss Verinder provided with two "chaperones."
She takes possession of some large warrior who has lately arrived from the battle-fields of Umballa or Meerut, and she chaperones him about the rooms, staying him with flagons and prattling low nothings. The weaker vessel jibs a little at first; but gradually the spell begins to work and the love-light kindles in his eye.
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