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Medford, who was chaperoning them. "You are making the passengers smile at you. I greatly dislike having any one smile at me." "You can supply all the dignity for the party, Aunt Lucy," said Inza. "We're not going to try to be dignified to-day. We're just going in for the best time we can have, and let people smile all they wish."
She saw to it that the girls were in bed by ten o'clock and that all were accounted for at meal time. Apparently, beyond this, she left her charges to their own devices. She had taught in the High School too long not to know that spying and nagging are more demoralizing than no chaperoning at all. There was a very early pairing off in the camp.
Polly Roberts had come into the most notorious of them at eleven, chaperoning a party, which included Aileen Lawton, a girl as restless and avid of excitement as herself. Rex Roberts and several other young men had been in attendance, and Polly had begged Ruyler to stay on and let his wife see something of "real life."
And in this instance he should be his own detective. He turned to Mrs. Thornton. "Going on to the Fairmont?" he asked. "Oh, yes, I have a new gown have you admired it? Arrived from Paris last night and I am chaperoning two of these girls. You are not, of course?" "I did intend to, but it's no go. Still, I may drop in late and take my wife home " "Let me take her home."
He had gone down to the boat to meet his daughter, and had found his daughter quite mad. It appears that at Aden Nancy had seen in a local paper the news of Edward's suicide. In the Red Sea she had gone mad. She had remarked to Mrs Colonel Luton, who was chaperoning her, that she believed in an Omnipotent Deity. She hadn't made any fuss; her eyes were quite dry and glassy.
"Aunt Milly, this is Judge Stott, a very old friend of father's. Mrs. Blake, my mother's sister. Mother will be surprised to see her. They haven't met for ten years." "This visit is going to be only a brief one," said Mrs. Blake. "I really came over to chaperone Shirley more than anything else." "As if I needed chaperoning with Mr. Ryder for an escort!" retorted Shirley.
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.
"Well?" inquired Mrs. Vendenning, looking up at the tall, pale girl she was chaperoning so carefully during their sojourn in town. "Oh, you know the rhyme to that," yawned Agatha; "let's ring up somebody. I'm bored stiff." "What did Howard Quarrier want?" "He knows, I think, but he hasn't yet informed me." "I'll tell you one thing, Agatha," said Mrs.
As she hesitated, a couple of figures came toward her, and she was overjoyed to recognize Mary Scull, one of the oldest residents, and little Rita Stanford, whom she had been chaperoning to a concert given by the blind. They were so full of the wonderful work done by these afflicted musicians that they scarcely listened to her limping explanation of her dilemma.
Once when the wife of Henry Clay was chaperoning a young lady from Boston, at a party given by one of his associates in the Cabinet, they passed through the card-room, where Mr. Clay and other gentlemen were playing whist. The young lady, in her Puritan simplicity, inquired: "Is card-playing a common practice here?" "Yes," replied Mrs. Clay, "the gentlemen always play when they get together."
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