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Landon, Melville D. (Melville De Lancey), 1839-1910 [1872], Saratoga in 1901: fun, love, society & satire. Illustrated with 200 photo-etchings by Arthur Lumley. (Sheldon & Company, New York) [word count] [eaf628T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
“Fourthly,—I added this Flirting is a word which “Oh, I hear, Miss Brown, that He simply means that Miss The second meaning to the
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“Why didn't I tell him to go?” Well, somehow or other I couldn't; He's one of the swell beaux, you know, It I'd said go, I know now he wouldn't. Yes, “handsome!” and sweet as a doll, And he dances and flirts so divine That you feel as if clasped by Apol— O dear Kate, don't I wish he were mine! Yes, first I meet Fred up at Rye; `Twas a dance, a bouquet and a walk; The wretch took my hand with a sigh, But mamma came and broke up the talk. O Kate, what a sweet laundalet! (There is Fred walking over the street; You dear scamp—you love of a pet!) Seats easy—lined with drab, and so neat. James in drab, too—dressed à propos; What a love of a hat you do wear! Strings negative drab, and just too Lovely as we wear our back hair. Take a peep at my braids, do you see How classic? on the top of my head, Just like the Venus of Milo— Who can that be walking with Fred? “Nellie M—, of West Thirty-third?” O the wretch—the flirt! how he can! For last night he gave me his word Not to speak to the guy—O the man! Why, at Richfield, last summer, they walked, She on his arm; ate lunch on the grass; And Fred took her hand as they talked— Yes, I saw through my opera glass. He's never said love to me, Kate, How I'd frown him down quick at the word; He's a flirt when he walks with N—, Kate— With Nellie M—, of West Thirty-third!
Landon, Melville D. (Melville De Lancey), 1839-1910 [1872], Saratoga in 1901: fun, love, society & satire. Illustrated with 200 photo-etchings by Arthur Lumley. (Sheldon & Company, New York) [word count] [eaf628T]. |