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Practice makes perfect; and the chaperon is as much at home here as the stockbroker on 'Change, or the betting-man in the ring, or the fisherman amidst the roar and turmoil of the waves.— Kate Coventry An Autobiography
Perhaps there may be some couples, but they will be young and festive, and the chaperon will be a dear old thing with side-ringlets, who will let us do as we like, and take our part with the old man.— The Fortunes of the Farrells
In European society the chaperon is indispensable and has an acknowledged and honored position.— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
She must not open letters; she must not be prying and inquisitive; she must not give reasons for the girl she chaperons to regard her as "a dragon A giddy, flirtatious chaperon is a disadvantage to a girl.— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
Such a chaperon is worse than none at all The Girl and the Chaperon.--A girl should remember that her chaperon stands in the relation of a mother to her for the time being, therefore any disregard of her chaperon's suggestions or wishes is the same as disregarding her mother's.— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada

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