Like his brother before him the duke was very fond of dancing, and kept many a reluctant senior and many a tired-out chaperone up till all hours at the grand ball given in honour of his twenty-fourth birthday.

We could take a chaperone, and maybe the boys could come along too.

" CHAPTER XI BILLIE WINS OUT "But whom shall we get for a chaperone?" asked Laura Jordon, after they had thoroughly discussed these new and startling plans for a vacation.

"The last time I asked her to chaperone us girls she said she would as soon chaperone a trio of eels.

"The last time I asked her to chaperone us girls she said she would as soon chaperone a trio of eels.

"If we can get her mother and father to consent and then can get Mrs. Gilligan to go with us as chaperone, we'll have a pretty good argument to give our folks.

The girls hugged Mrs. Jordon, waved to their new chaperone, and ran gayly down the steps.

The flickering candles made grotesque shadows on the walls; the house, after that noise, was as still as a tomb, and despite the comforting presence of their valiant chaperone, the girls kept close together for protection.

But their chaperone shook her head determinedly while her lip became still tighter.

"Do you know?" blurted Teddy Tucker, "you're my idea of a chaperone!

Miss Prettyman as a chaperone probably killed any desire Ada had to go shopping.

Sofia could hardly be grateful enough to the happy chance which had cast that lady for the rôle of her chaperone; lacking her guidance the girl must have been innocently guilty of many a gaucherie in ways new and strange to untried, faltering feet.

" Sabrina makes a few remarks concerning a pink-whiskered bark who is trying to convert the merry-merry and questions the propriety of going on an extended yachting cruise with a grass widow for a chaperone.

The Vicar's sister disapproves, because Betty is a grass-widow, and Penelope, the all-but-flapper, an insufficient chaperone.

That was the olive branch to her Aunt Elizabeth on the chaperone question.

I ordered luncheon for four, expecting to be home, and now I've been called away, but your aunt is there to chaperone you.

But she wuz the only one on his side available in the position of second chaperone to Josiah

But I told her I didn't seem to want to spend my time on them old ghosts that mornin', havin' such a big job on my hands to tackle that day as first chaperone to Josiah, and I got her mind off for the time bein', by the time I had fastened on my mantilly so the tabs hung as I wanted 'em to hang.

The seen wuz so hugely grand, so magnificently stupendous, and the mind that it wuz my duty as first chaperone to guard wuz

And of course Blandina jined in with him, and though that is what I wanted of her, as second chaperone, it provoked me time and agin; queer, hain't it?

Indeed Blandina, went a little ahead of time, for as second chaperone

As his anxious chaperone I consented to the project and he went and got the showiest one he could find.

Truly Josiah longed for that place day by day, but as first chaperone of the party I tried to delay him from goin', knowin' that it must come sometime but gladly puttin' off the day.

" I wuz goin' to twit her and tell her that as first chaperone

But I see he wuz beginnin' to look kinder mauger, and as first chaperone I sez anxiously, "Where do you want to go, dear Josiah?