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Life after all was very pleasant; she managed to fill it with many little and even a few absorbing interests; and once she spent a month at Santa Barbara chaperoning Janet Maynard, where her duties sat lightly upon her and she would have responded naturally if addressed as Miss Groome, so completely did Mortimer fade into the background.
Harris, who boarded in the next block, and was never happier than when chaperoning someone, offered to see to her and take her under the same wing which had sheltered six fine and now well-married daughters, Richard made no further objections.
"You must tell me everything, little one," the Contessa Santonini kept saying hurriedly. She was constrained and repetitious in the grip of her emotion, as they stood together, just out of earshot of the Italian consul's wife who was chaperoning the young girl upon her voyage.
Or that they were going to say much to me?" "You told me," said George, fiercely, "that mother never saw him except when she was chaperoning you." "They weren't much alone together, then," Fanny returned. "Hardly ever, before Wilbur died. But you don't suppose that stops people from talking, do you?
'Ain't you sorry she's a girl? Teddy is saying as he is chaperoning his aunt to church on Christmas day, 'because, you know, she's sure not to like games. 'It will be some time before she can play games, replies Lippa, laughing; 'but you will have to be very good to her. What do you want her to be called? 'Lots of names, says Teddy. 'But look, Auntie; do look, there's Mr Dalrymple.
Three days.... Three miserable, paltry, insufficient days, blighted by the chaperoning Evershams.... Frantically he hoped against his dark foreboding that one menace at least might be averted that by now Luxor would have ceased to shelter a certain sandy-haired young Englishman. Luxor was warm and drowsy with afternoon sun.
And, thinking it over sometimes at twilight, in those rare moments when there weren't from one to three of the men grouped adoringly around her, and Francis wasn't chaperoning her silently in the background, she felt that the work was a small price to pay for the pleasantness of the rest of her life there. Always before she had been a cog in the machinery, wherever she had been.
As it was, she sent for me to her room the next morning, and I found Miss Shirley alone there. She said Mrs. Westangle would be down in a moment." Now, indeed, Mrs. Verrian could not govern herself from saying, "I don't like it, Philip." "I knew you wouldn't. It was what I said to myself at the time. You were so present with me that I seemed to have you there chaperoning the interview."
Hilliard, and don't think I'm being rude after all your kindness," Angela said, melting a little; "I could hardly refuse them, when it was a question of chaperoning a newly engaged couple; and I thought you would join us, of course." This concession gave Nick an unexpected chance. He dared to hope that it was an olive branch held out. "Did you really think that?" he asked quickly, in a low voice.
I'll see Morris and tell you what he says." Leaving Pierce, the speaker hurried to a harassed little man of Hebraic countenance who was engaged in the difficult task of chaperoning this unruly aggregation of talent. To him she said: "I've found a man for you, Morris." "Man?" "To go to Dawson with us. That tall, good-looking fellow at the bar." Mr. Best was bewildered. "What ails you?" he queried.
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