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This ceremony continues sometimes, at intervals, for months; usually during the warm weather. After the dance is done, the scalp is buried or put up on the scaffold with some of the deceased of the tribe who took the scalp. So much for the scalp dance a high religious ceremony, not, as some suppose, a mere amusement.
Mrs Greenow had quickly obtained the advantage of his alliance, and he, who was soon to perform on her behalf the marriage ceremony, had promised to grace this little festival. The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in the field instead of comfortably in the dining-room.
Before entering the quiet precincts of the tea-room, the company assembling to partake of the ceremony laid aside, together with their swords, the ferocity of the battle-field or the cares of government, there to find peace and friendship. Cha-no-yu is more than a ceremony it is a fine art; it is poetry, with articulate gestures for rhythm: it is a modus operandi of soul discipline.
"Oh," she cried, "the new moon! And I saw it over my right shoulder, too! We are sure to have wonderful luck this month." Pierre shut his eyes. "Which way is it?" he cried. Pierrette turned him carefully about so that he too might see it over his right shoulder, and then, this ceremony completed, they washed the dishes and helped pack the things carefully away in the clothes-basket once more.
Royalty exists only through the popular choice; and even the election was recalled at the ceremony of coronation, in which two bishops, pointing towards the king, asked both nobles and peasants whether they accepted him as such. "Therefore, authority comes from the people.
'I suppose you'll go out again? Paula said to her cousin as they entered the drawing-room. 'No; I shall read a little and then go to bed. She added, with a laugh, 'They will sit late in the study, no doubt, with their cigars and steaming glasses. Paula moved restlessly about the room for a few minutes; then from the door she gave a 'good-night, and disappeared without further ceremony.
Accordingly the snake was conducted with much ceremony into the Emperors presence, where it was distinctly observed to make a low obeisance. The Kaiser addressed the animal courteously, as though it were a human being, and inquired what it wanted. Whereupon the snake made a sign which the company took to indicate that it desired the Emperor to follow it.
From the silence which followed mother's return to the parlor, I concluded they were performing the ancient ceremony of waiting for some one to go through the doorway first.
The traditions of chivalry, the incessant warfare of two centuries and a half, the humane conceptions of the Church, the regard for human life, the difficulty of communications, the scarcity of munitions and arms, all these and other elements had combined to make war under mediocre generals a stately ceremonial, and to diminish the number of actual battles, which took place, when they did, only after careful preparation, as an unpleasant necessity, by a sort of common agreement, and with the ceremony of a duel.
When returning visits of ceremony, as the first visit after a letter of introduction, or as announcing your arrival in town or your intended departure, one may leave a card at the door without inquiring for the lady. Attention to these little things is a proof at once of self-respect and of respect for one's friends. They soon become easy matters of habit, and of memory.
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