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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538953" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How It's Done</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bold-faced ranger<br>(Perfect stranger)<br>Meets two well-behaved young ladies<br>He's attractive,<br>Young and active -<br>Each a little bit afraid is.<br>Youth advances,<br>At his glances<br>To their danger they awaken;<br>They repel him<br>As they tell him<br>He is very much mistaken.<br>Though they speak to him politely,<br>Please observe they're sneering slightly,<br>Just to show he's acting vainly.<br>This is Virtue saying plainly,<br>&quot;Go away, young bachelor,<br>We are not what you take us for!&quot;<br>(When addressed impertinently,<br>English ladies answer gently,<br>&quot;Go away, young bachelor,<br>We are not what you take us for!&quot;)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As he gazes,<br>Hat he raises,<br>Enters into conversation.<br>Makes excuses -<br>This produces<br>Interesting agitation.<br>He, with daring,<br>Undespairing,<br>Gives his card - his rank discloses -<br>Little heeding<br>This proceeding,<br>They turn up their little noses.<br>Pray observe this lesson vital -<br>When a man of rank and title<br>His position first discloses,<br>Always cock your little noses.<br>When at home, let all the class<br>Try this in the looking-glass.<br>(English girls of well-bred notions<br>Shun all unrehearsed emotions,<br>English girls of highest class<br>Practise them before the glass.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His intentions<br>Then he mentions,<br>Something definite to go on -<br>Makes recitals<br>Of his titles,<br>Hints at settlements, and so on.<br>Smiling sweetly,<br>They, discreetly,<br>Ask for further evidences:<br>Thus invited,<br>He, delighted,<br>Gives the usual references.<br>This is business. Each is fluttered<br>When the offer's fairly uttered.<br>&quot;Which of them has his affection?&quot;<br>He declines to make selection.<br>Do they quarrel for his dross?<br>Not a bit of it - they toss!<br>Please observe this cogent moral -<br>English ladies never quarrel.<br>When a doubt they come across,<br>English ladies always toss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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(Perfect stranger)
Meets two well-behaved young ladies
He's attractive,
Young and active -
Each a little bit afraid is.
Youth advances,
At his glances
To their danger they awaken;
They repel him
As they tell him
He is very much m..."></div>
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