"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 Piggie came in his unaform but he was really quite upset
because he had a letter. I mean his wife is coming to London because
she always comes to London every year to get her old clothes made over
as she has a girl who does it very very cheap. So she is going to stay
with the lady who saw us in the jewelery store, because it always saves
money to stay with a friend. So I wanted to cheer Piggie up so I told
him that I did not think the lady saw us and if she did see us, she
really could not believe her eyes to see him in a jewelery store. But I
did not tell him that I think that Dorothy and I had better go to Paris
soon. Because, after all, Piggie’s society is beginning to tell on a
girls nerves. But I really made Piggie feel quite good about his
unaform because I told him I only felt fit to be with him in a diamond
tiara. So then I told him that, even if his wife was in London, we
could still be friends, because I could not help but admire him even if
his wife was in London and I told him I really thought a thing like
that was nearly always the result of fate. So then we went to tea at
Mrs. Weeks. So Piggie arranged with Mrs. Weeks to pay her for the
diamond tiara and she nearly fell dead but she will keep it a secret
because no one would believe it anyway. So now I have the diamond tiara
and I have to admit that everything always turns out for the best. But
I promised Piggie that I would always stay in London and we would
always be friendly. Because Piggie always says that I am the only one
who admires him for what he really is.
April 25th:
Well, we were so busy the last days I did not have time to write in my
diary because now we are on a ship that seems to be quite a small ship
to be sailing to Paris and we will be at Paris this afternoon. Because
it does not take nearly so long to come to Paris as it does to come to
London. I mean it seems quite unusual to think that it takes 6 days to
come to London and only one day to come to Paris.
So Dorothy is quite upset because she did not want to come as she is
madly in love with Gerald and Gerald said that we really ought not to
leave London without going to see England while we happened to be here.
But I told him that if England was the same kind of a place that London
seems to be, I really know to much to bother with such a place. I mean
we had quite a little quarrel because Gerald showed up at the station
with a bangle for Dorothy so I told Dorothy she was well rid of such a
person. So Dorothy had to come with me because Mr. Eisman is paying her
expenses because he wants Dorothy to be my chaperone.
So the last thing in London was the garden party. I sold quite a lot of
red baloons and I sold a red baloon to Harry Lauder the famous Scotch
gentleman who is the famous Scotch tenor for 20 pounds. So Dorothy said
I did not need to buy any ticket to Paris on the boat because if I
could do that, I could walk across the channel.
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