156 - gentleman's etiquette in a towering inferno

I especially enjoyed the case of proposal:

Ah, I supplicate, I beseech, I implore thee, dearest [here insert persons toward whom the operator feels a tender sentiment, but has not yet declared himself.], to have compassion upon thy poor kneeling henchman [do not attempt to kneel--this is but a figure of speech] and deign to be his! Deign to engender into bonds of tenderness those bonds of chill conventionality which enfold us in their silken tie, and he will ever bless the day thou didst accept the refuge of his arms in fleeing the fiery doom which now, with crimson wing, o'ershadows us.[this form to be memorized, and practiced in private]