But I'm an old woman, I am, and I've never had time to be a young one, and I've never had a beau nor nothing.
Once he told her frankly that if she ever got a beau, he—Jimmy—was going to quit.
It was, he wrote, a distinctive character of the beau monde that they were ' all equally cautious of offending ' anyone.
The politeness of the beau monde, in other words, begot the commercial world.
The appellation "beau" used in the accompanying text indicates that he will not leave off without at least giving it a try.
