Crossword-Solution: MAURINE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Let them daily meet At ball and concert, in the church and street, They kiss and coo, they visit, chat, caress; Their love increases, rather than grows less; And all goes well, till ‘Helen dear’ discovers That ‘Maurine darling’ wins too many lovers.

And, while I twirled my thumbs, I would sit wishing That I had gone off hunting birds, or fishing, No, thanks, Maurine! The iron hand of Fate, (Or otherwise Miss Trevor’s dainty fingers,) Will bar my entrance into Eden’s gate; And I shall be like some poor soul that lingers At heaven’s portal, paying the price of sin, Yet hoping to be pardoned and let in.” He looked so melancholy sitting there, I laughed outright.

There’s nothing like a woman’s grace and beauty To waken mankind to a sense of duty.” “I bow before the mandate of my queen: Your slightest wish is law, Ma Belle Maurine,” He answered, smiling, “I’m at your command; Point but one lily finger, or your wand, And you will find a willing slave obeying.

Come! read your note and hurry in, Maurine, And make yourself fit object to be seen.” Helen was bending o’er an almond bush, And ere she looked up I had read the note, And calmed my heart, that, bounding, sent a flush To brow and cheek, at sight of aught _he_ wrote.

And you must prove you are _au fait_ to-night, And make a perfect toilet: for our caller Is man, and critic, poet, artist, scholar, And views with eyes of all.” “Oh, oh! Maurine,” Cried Helen with a well-feigned look of fear, “You’ve frightened me so I shall not appear: I’ll hide away, refusing to be seen By such an ogre.