Status Updates From Shirley

"...he relieved his feelings by a little flowery language, with which it is not necessary to strew the present page. A bouquet or two of the choicest blossoms fell on the unperturbed head of one Mr. Graves... with a second nosegay he gifted another young gentleman in his train; but the full corbeille of blushing bloom fell to the lot of meddling womankind, en masse."