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"You're as lovely as ever," he said, as he took her hand; "perhaps a bit lovelier because you are glad to see me." "I am glad," she assured him; "and it is so nice to have you come before the summer is at an end. We can have a ride out into Westchester, and come back by daylight to dinner." "And no chaperons?" "No." She was looking up at him a little wistfully.
"It seems that at the Royal Institution, or whatever the place is called, young women look up to the Lecturers as priests of Science, and go to them after the lecture in what churchmen would call the vestry, and express charming little doubts about electricity, and pretty gentle disquietudes about the solar system: and then the Professors have to give explanations; and then, somehow, at the end of a few weeks, they find they have provided themselves with chaperons for life."
There were a great many ladies handsomely dressed, chatting gaily with their chaperons, and I recognised some of my acquaintances on every side; in fact, there was scarcely a family of rank in the county that had not at least some member of it present. As the orchestra struck up the overture to Don Giovanni, I retired from my place to inspect the arrangements behind.
Her anxiety was apparently shared by several other chaperons who stole occasional suspicious glances in the direction of certain of the young braves. It had been known to happen that a girl unworthy to join in the sacred feast was publicly disgraced.
'Oh! if that is to be done, you must say it. Ladies must manage their own visiting affairs. I don't understand chaperons and stuff. 'Arthur, you don't mean me to speak? 'If it is to be done at all, it is woman's work, and I see no use in it. She will toss her head, and only be more resolved on her own way. 'Oh, Arthur, one moment! Did you not say it ought to be done?
There was no mistaking that splendid figure, which was attracting the attention of so many young girls and their chaperons. With a sweep of her white hand, Sally put back her veil, and stood before him in the garb of her French maid. For an instant, this unexpected discovery and the remembrance of the remark he had but just uttered recurred to him, and a dull red swept over his face. "Mrs.
"You remind me of a garden," he went on, "but I don't like to see a garden without a hedge round it." "You think I ought to have a chaperon," said Betty bravely, "but chaperons aren't needed in this quarter." "I wish I were your brother," said Temple. "I'm so glad you're not," said Betty. She wanted no chaperonage, even fraternal.
She and Somerled arranged that she should leave for Carlisle by the first train possible in the morning. At home she was to settle her few affairs temporarily, and catch a quick ship for New York, whence she would hurry on to California. Mrs. Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless. Such chaperons as Mrs.
The chaperons were negligent and dilatory. Uncle Lance even fell asleep for several hours. But when we returned at twilight, the ambulance mules were garlanded as if for a wedding party. The next morning our guest was to depart, and to me fell the pleasant task of acting as her escort.
Around the wall were dusky chaperons, guarding their charges with the watchfulness of old dowagers protecting their daughters from the advances of younger sons. Soft eyes flashed invitingly, graceful figures passed, and the revelry momentarily attracted Mauville, as he followed the movements of the waltzers and heard the strains of music.
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