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Updated: June 17, 2025
I've had no coming-out like other girls." "That's why you are so much jollier than most of them," said Paul, betrayed into a compliment. From the moment they entered the drive-gate, and began the ascent to the house, Sally looked about her with eager interest, breaking into exclamations of delight as each step revealed some fresh beauty to her eyes.
Dane had taught her child in preparation for her coming-out tea had been the simple and obvious one that men were rarely minded to sympathize with feminine moods; but that under all conditions a woman who seeks to please, must adapt herself to the mental vagaries of her masculine companion. Even Lorimer, tender and loving as he invariably showed himself, was no exception to the rule.
"He's a perfect dear!" cried Annabel, reveling in the crystal, filigree, coral, and mosaic trinkets spread before her while Rose completed her rapture by adding sundry tasteful trifles fresh from Paris. "Now tell me, when do you mean to have your coming-out party?
Presently she asked: "Have you been dancing at Count Rosek's again lately?" "Oh, yes, haven't you didn't you I " And she stopped. The thought flashed through Gyp, 'So Gustav's been seeing her, and hasn't told me! But she said at once: "Ah, yes, of course; I forgot. When is the night of your coming-out?" "Next Friday week. Fancy! The Octagon. Isn't it splendid?
The excitement was spluttering and crackling all over the town, the wonderful week upon which the whole country was entering, the Ball, her own coming-out Ball, and the consciousness that He would be there, and, even though He did love another, would be sure to give her at least one dance; these things were all too strong for her she was happy, happy, happy her eyes danced, her toes danced, her very soul danced for sheer delirious joy.
"Unberufen and Absit omen," she said hastily. "Don't tempt Providence too far, Captain Frazer. At my coming-out reception, I met a man who boasted that he always broke everything within range, from hearts to china. Ten minutes later, he tripped over a rug and fell down on top of the plate of salad he was bringing me. And he didn't break a thing "
She was barely eighteen when Medora Manson took her back to Europe you remember the excitement when she appeared in black at her coming-out ball? Another of Medora's fads really this time it was almost prophetic! That must have been at least twelve years ago; and since then Ellen has never been to America. No wonder she is completely Europeanised."
It seemed the Ambassador and she were old friends; that she had sat on his knee as a baby through various Carnival processions in the Corso, showing him how to throw confetti; and that he and Lady F. had given a dance at the Embassy for her coming-out, when Connie, at seventeen, and His Excellency still the handsomest man in the room, despite years and gout had danced the first waltz together, and a subsequent minuet; which though Connie did not say so had been the talk of Rome.
Kirk wandered about through the confusion, nodding to his friends, chatting here and there, his eyes fixed anxiously upon the door. Clifford approached and fell into conversation with him. "Great doings, eh? I came up from the Central just to see what these affairs are like. Did you see to-night's paper?" "No." "Garavel is going to run for President. This is a kind of political coming-out party."
One of her maternal aunts made her a coming-out tea, after she left school; and she entered upon a series of dinners, dances, theatre parties, and receptions of all kinds; but the tide of fairy gold pouring through her fingers left no engagement-ring on them.
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