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The confrères, from the fact that they wore hoods of white linen, obtained the name of Chaperons Blancs.
There can't be two girls with chaperons departing up the Nile! Why why the whole thing's as clear to me as as a house afire!" "I don't share your conviction." "Very well, then, if you don't think it is Miss Beecher, you don't have to go into this thing.
Then after full inquiries it was decided that she should have her will, and follow out her medical course of study, provided she could find a satisfactory person to board with. She proposed, and her mother consented, that the two Miss Rays should be her chaperons, of course with liberal payment.
"I'm sorry to hear that, for if I can rise to the price of a gee, I was hoping you would allow me to join you occasionally." "I should be delighted, but " and she hesitated. "Oh, yes," he added quickly, "I know what you are going to say: 'How about a chaperon?" "Perhaps they don't keep chaperons in Rangoon?" "Oh, yes, my dear, they do," declared Mrs.
If any woman should have a spotless record and admirable character it should be the chaperon. It will tell against her charge if she have not. Certain needy women who have been ladies, and who precariously attach to society through their families, are always seeking for some young heiress. These women are very poor chaperons, and should be avoided.
American girls just arrived on big ships took care of their chaperons and gazed with interest at the passing show, especially at the magnificent Arabs who appeared to float rather than walk, looking neither to right nor left, their white burnouses blowing behind them.
"Eric, I've been invited to go to a dance in London next week; I suppose you wouldn't like to chaperon me? Mother does so hate leaving the country even for one night." "Will it be very late? I can't do any work next day, if I don't get a little sleep. As a matter of fact, haven't chaperons ceased to exist?" "I don't know. I was invited by a man I met at the Warings.
There were a great many parties made up like those of our friends of somebody in love with somebody, surrounded by chaperons. These were the social people, and also there were a certain number of young men with pretty women who were too fashionably dressed, too much made up, and who were looking forward too much to supper.
Then growing suddenly serious, she said: 'It is all very well to laugh, but, when one comes to think of it, it is very sad indeed to see seven human lives wasting away, a whole family of girls eating their hearts out in despair, having nothing to do but to pop about from one tennis-party to another, and chatter to each other or their chaperons of this girl and that who does not seem to be getting married.
The girl has her companion, and he has his, for the sake of propriety or protection. The conversation is carried on in a whisper, so that even these chaperons do not hear. At the sound of the drum on summer evenings, dances are begun within the circular rows of teepees, but without the circle the young men promenade in pairs.
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