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Eyeing the athletic Easterner fiercely, he growled with deliberate meaning: "Ye same to be findin' plenty av amusement in the private affairs av me friend an' mesilf. D'ye think that we are a coople av hoochy-koochy girls to be makin' sphort for all the domned dudes that runs to look at us whin their mammas don't know they're out?" The other regarded him with well-bred surprise.
I know where the purple geranium grows; where the bright scarlet columbine blushes, and where the pale wax plant hides under its glossy green leaf. Oh, I know how to make your eyes shine and your little heart happy. So tie on your sun-bonnet, and come with me, the more the merrier. I don't believe your mammas will ever know you, when I bring you back. Everybody called Rosalie a beauty.
Till eleven, when they broke up; and the entertainers in a body rushed merrily and noisily along the passages to Number Thirteen, West Wing, rousing from their first naps many quietly disposed, delicate people, who kept early hours, and a few babies whose nurses and mammas would bear them anything but gratefully in mind through the midnight hours to come.
Sylvia was enraptured with the wilderness of babies, and leaving the others to their own devices followed the matrons to "Patience's room," and gave herself up to the pleasant tyranny of the small potentates, who swarmed over her as she sat on the floor, tugging at her hair, exploring her eyes, covering her with moist kisses, and keeping up a babble of little voices more delightful to her than the discourse of the flattered mammas who benignly surveyed her admiration and their offspring's prowess.
Mammas are putting the girls' cloaks and boas on; papas have gone out to look for the carriage, and left the box-door swinging open, and letting in the cold air: if there WERE any stage-conversation, you could not hear it, for the scuffling of the people who are leaving the pit. See, the orange-women are preparing to retire.
He had believed, for a series of strange, oppressed months, that Kate Cookham's manners and tone were on the right side; she had been governess for young children in two very good private families, and now had classes in literature and history for bigger girls who were sometimes brought by their mammas; in fact, coming in one day to look over his collection of students' manuals, and drawing it out, as so many did, for the evident sake of his conversation, she had appealed to him that very first time by her apparently pronounced intellectual side goodness knew she didn't even then by the physical! which she had artfully kept in view till she had entangled him past undoing.
Lady Cecilia then presented her to a group of sister graces standing near the sofas of mammas and chaperons not each a different grace, but similar each, indeed upon the very same identical pattern air of young-lady fashion well-bred, and apparently well-natured.
During the next four months I did not enter Mrs. Graham’s house, nor she mine; but still the ladies continued to talk about her, and still our acquaintance continued, though slowly, to advance. But Mary liked children, and fond mammas like those who can duly appreciate their treasures.
Down the church-steps, guided by fond mammas, came little girls in white dresses, with white wreaths in their hair, and carrying, in baskets slung over their shoulders, woolly lambs or blue and white Virgins. Groups of cavalry officers stood chatting with civilians in their Sunday best, and through the windows of the Golden Eagle we saw active preparations for a crowded mid-day dinner.
'Now, Maurice, cried Albinia, 'you confess how fond Mary is of setting people to rights. 'Well when Maurice bullies Alby. 'Aye, you talk of the mammas, and you only want to make out poor Maurice the aggressor. 'Never mind, they will work in better than if they were fabulous children. Ah, you are going to contend that yours is a fabulous child.
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