Well, how many conquests? I fancy a score By the flush on your cheeks and your shoulders. A bore! Oh, nonsense; a debutante just out of school
Who can rule with a smile what a king could not rule, From young Harry, her prince, to myself, her poor fool! Come, tell me, did Harry propose? What a goose
You would think me to tell you, and then of what use Could it be? Well, it might give me hope, where before There was none,— quite a boon from the lips you adore
When you‘ re hungry for love. Or who knows but it might — Yes, it might blot from life every semblance of light As the clouds blot the moon on a storm-troubled night.
But tell me. He did. And your answer was? No.
He: You mean it, or are you coquetting yet? Oh! I just told him I cared for another — he smiled. It was merely to him so much pleasure beguiled
From a girl. Charge it up profit?— loss?— tell me which? He thinks I am pretty, they say, but, not rich. He would love me, perhaps, for a season or two, So I told him that I loved another.
And who? Really, must I tell you? No — your finger — yes, this! A solitaire — done! and now quickly!
One! Kiss. Why he asked for a Vacation. “Dear Jack:
It's delightfully gay here,— Old Paris seemed never so fine,— And mamma says we're going to stay here, And papa — well, papa sips his wine
And says nothing. You know him of old, dear. He's only too happy to rest,— After making three millions in gold, dear. He's played out, it must be confessed,—
And I — I'm to wed an old Baron Three weeks from to-day, in great style ( He's as homely and gaunt as old Charon, And they say that his past has been vile );
And I've promised to cut you hereafter,— Small chance, though, we ever shall meet,— So let's turn our old love into laughter, And face the thing through. Shall we, sweet?
Can you give me up, Jack, to this roué, Just because we may always be poor? There's still enough time, dear, et tu es Un brave,— you will come, I am sure.
Put your trunk on the swiftest Cunarder, And do n't give me up, Jack, for — well, There are things in this world that are harder Than poverty. Come to me!
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