"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
So this morning Harry, the boy friend of ours who is the bell hop,
waked me up at ten o’clock because he had a box of one dozen orchids
from Piggie. So by the time Piggie pays for a few dozen orchids, the
diamond tiara will really seem like quite a bargain. Because I always
think that spending money is only just a habit and if you get a
gentleman started on buying one dozen orchids at a time he really gets
very good habits.
April 21st:
Well, yesterday afternoon I took Piggie shopping on a street called
Bond Street. So I took him to a jewelery store because I told him I had
to have a silver picture frame because I had to have a picture of him
to go in it. Because I told Piggie that when a girl gets to know such a
good looking gentleman as him she really wants to have a picture of him
on her dressing table where she can look at it a lot. So Piggie became
quite intreeged. So we looked at all the silver picture frames. But
then I told him that I really did not think a silver picture frame was
good enough for a picture of him because I forgot that they had gold
picture frames until I saw them. So then we started to look at the gold
picture frames. So then it came out that his picture was taken in his
unaform. So I said he must be so good looking in his unaform that I
really did not think even the gold picture frames were good enough but
they did not have any platinum picture frames so we had to buy the best
one we could.
So then I asked him if he could put on his unaform tomorrow because I
would love to see him in his unaform and we could go to tea at Mrs.
Weeks. So he really became very pleased because he grinned quite a lot
and he said that he would. So then I said that poor little I would
really look like nothing at all to be going out with him in his
georgous unaform. So then we started to look at some bracelets but a
lady friend of his who is quite friendly with his wife, who is in their
country house in the country, came in to the store, so Piggie became
quite nervous to be caught in a jewelery store where he has not been
for years and years, so we had to go out.
This morning Gerald called up Dorothy and he said that day after
tomorrow they are having a theatrical garden party to sell things to
people for charity so he asked if Dorothy and I would be one of the
ones who sells things to people for charity. So we said we would.
So now I must telephone Mrs. Weeks and say I will bring Sir Francis
Beekman to tea tomorrow and I hope it all comes out all right. But I
really wish Piggie would not tell so many storys. I mean I do not mind
a gentleman when he tells a great many storys if they are new, but a
gentleman who tells a great many storys and they are all the same
storys is quite enervating. I mean London is really so uneducational
that all I seem to be learning is some of Piggies storys and I even
want to forget them. So I am really becoming jolly well fed up with
London.
April 22nd:
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