"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady — John Shaqi
"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional ladyLoos, Anita
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"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Loos, Anita
Diary fiction; Humorous stories; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Millionaires -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
Yesterday afternoon I really thought I ought to begin to educate Piggie
how to act with a girl like American gentlemen act with a girl. So I
asked him to come up to have tea in our sitting room in the hotel
because I had quite a headache. I mean I really look quite cute in my
pink negligay. So I sent out a bell hop friend of Dorothy and I who is
quite a nice boy who is called Harry and who we talk to quite a lot. So
I gave Harry ten pounds of English money and I told him to go to the
most expensive florist and to buy some very very expensive orchids for
10 pounds and to bring them to our sitting room at fifteen minutes past
five and not to say a word but to say they were for me. So Piggie came
to tea and we were having tea when Harry came in and he did not say a
word but he gave me a quite large box and he said it was for me. So I
opened the box and sure enough they were a dozen very very beautiful
orchids. So I looked for a card, but of course there was no card so I
grabbed Piggie and I said I would have to give him quite a large hug
because it must have been him. But he said it was not him. But I said
it must be him because I said that there was only one gentleman in
London who was so sweet and generous and had such a large heart to send
a girl one dozen orchids like him. So he still said it was not him. But
I said I knew it was him, because there was not a gentleman in London
so really marvelous and so wonderful and such a marvelous gentleman to
send a girl one dozen orchids every day as him. So I really had to
apologize for giving him such a large hug but I told him I was so full
of impulses that when I knew he was going to send me one dozen orchids
every day I became so impulsive I could not help it!
So then Dorothy and Gerald came in and I told them all about what a
wonderful gentleman Piggie turned out to be and I told them when a
gentleman sent a girl one dozen orchids every day he really reminded me
of a prince. So Piggie blushed quite a lot and he was really very very
pleased and he did not say any more that it was not him. So then I
started to make a fuss over him and I told him he would have to look
out because he was really so good looking and I was so full of impulses
that I might even lose my mind some time and give him a kiss. So Piggie
really felt very very good to be such a good looking gentleman. So he
could not help blushing all the time and he could not help grinning all
the time from one ear to another. So he asked us all to dinner and then
he and Gerald went to change their clothes for dinner. So Dorothy and I
had quite a little quarrel after they went because Dorothy asked me
which one of the Jesse James brothers was my father. But I told her I
was not so unrefined that I would waste my time with any gentleman who
was only a ballroom dancer when he had a job. So Dorothy said Gerald
was a gentleman because he wrote her a note and it had a crest. So I
told her to try and eat it. So then we had to get dressed.
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