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"You never come round to Park Lane!" She seemed to be making very lame excuses, and James did not look at her. He did not want to believe that she was really avoiding them it would mean too much. "I expect the fact is, you haven't time," he said; "You're always about with June. I expect you're useful to her with her young man, chaperoning, and one thing and another.
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.
Still even there there were some young men about town, a sort of "jeunesse doré", not of 18-carat gold perhaps, but a "jeunesse" quite equal to the pleasant task of buzzing around the fair tobacconist. Mrs. L. did her share of chaperoning; du Maurier and I supplied the rest, and watched over her with chivalrous, if not quite disinterested devotion.
The house was taken from Michaelmas, and a few days after, the two little victims, as Bessie laughingly called them, were taken over to St. Norbert's in the Homestead carriage, Lady Temple chaperoning the three young ladies to see the inauguration, and the height of Rachel's glory. They were received by Mr. Mauleverer at the door, and slightly in the rear saw the matron, Mrs.
Wan and wasted as a spectre, she indulged in anticipation of again mixing with the fashionable world, and talked of chaperoning Isabel to private parties and public amusements, when she was standing on the brink of eternity.
It was with a feeling of relief that she caught the chaperoning eye of Mrs. Leyton, who was entreating her in the usual mysterious signal to the other ladies to rise and follow her. When she reached the drawing-room, a little behind the others, she was somewhat surprised to observe that the stranger whom she had missed during the evening was approaching her with Mrs. Leyton. "Mr.
"Chaperoning Miss Brooke's investigations into the seamy side of current social history? That will be delightful." "Attaboy! If I'm not back in half an hour you'll see her safely home, of course?" "Trust me." "And you'll excuse me, Miss Brooke? I hope you don't think " "What I do think, Mr. Crane, is that you have been most kind to a lonely stranger.
It will be much better in every way, and far easier for you. In fact, you'll have no chaperoning to do at all. I shall be the chaperon. Now don't say you won't go, because you will." "You ought to have told me before." "No, I oughtn't. Nothing could have been more foolish." "But who are you the widow of?" "Hurrah!" cried Audrey. "You are a sport, Winnie!
Any time you are out of a job and want to overwork all your faculties and a few emotions, try chaperoning a young room-mate answering to the name of Sada San, who is one-half American dash, and the other half the unnamable witchery of a Japanese woman; a girl with the notes of a lark in her voice when she sings to the soft twang of an old guitar.
"It's as cheap here as anywhere; and when I saw all those motors before the door, I made up my mind that you'd probably need a brother, so I came as soon as I could leave the car." "So you are my brother, are you?" I echoed. "Don't you think you might adopt me, once for all, in that relationship? Then, you see, the chaperoning won't matter so much.
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