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I shall always remember her, as she passed along the boulevards almost every day at the same hour, accompanied by her mother as assiduously as a real mother might have accompanied her daughter. I was very young then, and ready to accept for myself the easy morality of the age. I remember, however, the contempt and disgust which awoke in me at the sight of this scandalous chaperoning.
She looked like an exceedingly smart jeweller's shop rather too brilliantly illuminated; "as if she were for sale," as an old and valued friend of hers aptly murmured into the ear of someone who had known her ever since she began to give good dinners. "Here we are! I'm chaperoning Pimpernel. But her mother arrives to-morrow," began Mrs.
Meanwhile our far-sighted government is smoothing the way, and there's nobody better fitted for the preliminary work than Mr. Stephen Cortlandt, of Washington, D. C., husband and clerk of the smartest woman in the business of chaperoning administrations." "Oh, see here, now, Cortlandt is more than a clerk." "He's an errand-boy. He knows it, she knows it, and a few other people know it.
The fact that their secret was all their own was all the more enchanting. To the domestic staff, to the children, to the outside world, life went upon its usual smooth way. Mr. Carter would be in town to-night, Mr. Carter was detained at the office, Mrs. Carter was chaperoning the young people, there were flowers for Mrs. Carter. That was all Bottomley and Pilgrim and Ward and Nina saw.
"I may be a yellow suffragist, as Judy calls me, but I must say, men can make things mighty comfortable for you." There was a shout of amazed laughter, but Patricia persisted: "Look at us last fall before we discovered David; look at us now; look at Miss Jinny; look at Elinor's canvas which she couldn't have dreamed of doing if Miss Auborn had been chaperoning her!
Among this dense mass of moving muslin, velvet and broad-cloth, I found myself chaperoning an extremely tempting little damsel, with a pair of laughing blue eyes and dark eyelashes, who had been committed to my care and guidance for the passage. "Miss Moriarty, Mr. Lorrequer," said an old lady in green and spangles, who I afterwards found was the lady mayoress.
Their new acquaintance of the corridor stopped at their table as she, too, made her way out. "I am going into the portrait class when I go up," she said, her dark-fringed eyes smiling frankly down on Elinor. "They tell me you are going to take your first plunge this afternoon. I'll be glad to show you about if you need any chaperoning." Elinor's eyes met hers gratefully.
Now she only said, falteringly, and looking down, "I I hoped you would come." That evening there was a little dinner given in a private parlor by Mr. Benson in honor of the engagement of his daughter. It was great larks for the young ladies whom Mrs. Cortlandt was chaperoning, who behaved with an elaboration of restraint and propriety that kept Irene in a flutter of uneasiness. Mr.
"We-ell, not exactly," she demurred. "But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?" "Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L Elise isn't twenty-nine yet. Carolyn is about thirty." "I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were thirty," he suggested thoughtfully. She laughed involuntarily.
Willis sighed, and pitied her, but was glad that she should be off her poor brother's mind as soon as might be, and was glad to resign her task of chaperoning her.
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