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Updated: June 7, 2025
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.
Can you plant a garden with weeds and then pull them up again in secure trust that no lurking burdocks and Canada thistle shall remain? Dear model mothers and prudent papas, be not afraid of wholesome fiction, as such, duly labelled and left uncorked.
For another, she was an irresistibly serene and healthy person, who would look one of her millionaire "papas" in the eye and tell him what was what with so much decision; it would suddenly occur to the great man that if his daughter could be made into so capable a woman, he would not care what ticket she might vote.
Platitude's "chapelle," seek for admission at the establishment of mother S , who, after employing them for a time in various menial offices, and making them pluck off their eyebrows hair by hair, generally dismisses them on the plea of sluttishness; whereupon they return to their papas to eat the bread of the country, with the comfortable prospect of eating it still in the shape of a pension after their sires are dead.
One purveyor of cosmetics sold sixteen dark-blue jars of pomatum, which bore the inscription a la jesmin. The young ladies provided themselves with tight dresses, agonising in the waist and jutting out sharply over the stomach; the mammas put formidable erections on their heads by way of caps; the busy papas were half dead with the bustle. The longed-for day arrived at last.
"Our papas," she thought, with a little sigh and a smile, "have learned that burying their children is a rather serious matter after all." When two or three days passed, however, and no further communication had been received from George, her father thought it wise to say a few words of caution. "Ella," he began, "you are now strong enough to look at this matter in all its bearings. Young Mr.
Then they tried to scramble out, and they couldn't do that, and I really don't know what would have happened to them, if at that moment Brighteyes Pigg and Sister Sallie hadn't come out of the pen where their mammas and papas were talking, to see what the boys were doing. The two girls saw the sand house, all caved in, and they guessed that Buddy and Billie and Johnnie were under it.
'Look, there is a pretty butterfly! exclaimed Mistress Pauncefort. 'Did you ever see such a pretty butterfly, Miss? 'I do not care about butterflies to-day, Mistress Pauncefort; I like to talk about widows. 'Was there ever such a child! exclaimed Mistress Pauncefort, with a wondering glance. 'I must have had a papa, said Venetia; 'all the ladies I read about had papas, and married husbands.
The course open to him was to woo and win her; but alas! savage papas are just like fathers in the best civilization the only difference between them is that the former are more open and matter-of-fact, since in savage etiquette a consideration is required in exchange for the daughter, which belongs exclusively to the parent, and must be of equal marketable value to the girl.
Sally brings more chairs out upon the green, and the mammas and papas talk busily together, while the little ones run about enjoying their own infantile prattle; and just as Harry and Jennie are the happiest, with their pinafores full of buttercups and daisies, and their little faces flushed with exercise and joy, nurse comes to take them to the house, for the dew begins to fall.
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