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The regular committee is composed exclusively of married ladies, but a vast number of young unmarried ladies of from eighteen to twenty-five years of age, respectively, are admitted as honorary members, partly because they are very useful in replenishing the boxes, and visiting the confined; partly because it is highly desirable that they should be initiated, at an early period, into the more serious and matronly duties of after-life; and partly, because prudent mammas have not unfrequently been known to turn this circumstance to wonderfully good account in matrimonial speculations.
There was not a marriageable young girl who was not a little in love with him, and their mothers envied the luck of the Tzigana. "It is astonishing how jealous the mammas are," said the Baroness, gayly. "They will make me pay dearly for having been the matchmaker; but I am proud of it, very proud. Zilah has good taste, that is all.
"It is not a thing to be angry for," added Grace. "No, it would not have been at my home," said Kate, with a sigh; "but, oh! I hope she will not keep me from coming here again." "She shall not," exclaimed Adelaide; "Papa won't let her." "She said your mamma would mind what your papa did not," said Kate, who was not very well informed on the nature of mammas.
Show me any other place where every other drawing-room is not a chamber of the Inquisition, with papas and mammas for inquisitors, and the cold shoulder, instead of the "dry pan and the gradual fire," the punishment of "heresy"! We think Baltimore is a pretty civilized kind of a village, said the young Marylander, good-naturedly.
In a way he had been spoiled by being sought after by managing mammas and over-anxious daughters, and was unprepared for the slightly indifferent reception he had met with from Alice. He had been attracted by her face the first time he saw her picture, and five days' association had not lessened the attraction.
'Oh! liquor them well, and send them home to their mammas, suggested Captain Bouncey, who was all for the drink. 'Try them with cherry brandy, suggested Captain Seedeybuck; adding, 'it's sweeter. Now, young man, continued he, addressing George Cheek, as he poured him out a wineglassful, 'this is the real Daffy's elixir that you read of in the papers.
It must have been a grand but melancholy sight to see Pen in the recesses of his apartment, sadly contemplating his ravaged beauty, and the artificial means of hiding its ruin. He appeared at length in the 'ead of 'air; but Warrington laughed so, that Pen grew sulky, and went back for his velvet cap, a neat turban which the fondest of mammas had worked for him. Then Mr.
Ladies, however, were not equally happy in their management of him. Professionally, he was always at their service. Socially, he was a drop of quicksilver. In vain the country mammas spread out their simple lures in front of him.
"You can't have two mammas, you know," said Betty, gently. "Try and tell us right dearie, and we'll take you home." "I dot two mammas," announced the child, positively. "Mamma Carrie live down there, mamma Mary live off there. I be at mamma Carrie's house, and I turn back, den I get losted. Take me home!" She seemed on the verge of tears again. "Here!" exclaimed Grace, in desperation.
"Und Teacher," Sarah continued, "Eva Gonorowsky's mamma has a mad on Sadie Gonorowsky's mamma, und her papa has a mad on her papa, und her gran'ma has a mad on both of papas und both of mammas, und her gran'pa has a mad somethin' fierce on both of uncles, und her auntie "
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