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As Schumann declared, the dancers of these valses should be at least countesses. There is a high-bred reserve despite their intoxication, and never a hint of the brawling peasants of Beethoven, Grieg, Brahms, Tschaikowsky, and the rest. But little of Vienna is in Chopin.

"Magda has promised to dance for me," proceeded Lady Arabella, entirely disregarding his quietly uttered negative. "They're not giving The Swan-Maiden that night at the Imperial. She can't dine, of course, poor dear. Really, dancers have a lot to put up with or rather, to put up without! Magda never dares to enjoy a good square meal. Afraid of getting fat, of course!

Brown on his arm, he "took the floor" at the head of the room, seeing that the dancers were correctly sorted out in sets; and thence proceeded to dance and instruct the room simultaneously, in a manner truly amazing.

He's very keen about that sort of thing and knows where to get the best dancers in the island." "Tell me," I queried, as I was about to enter the car, "are these girls I've heard so much about really pretty?" The Resident smiled cynically. "Well," he replied, and I thought that I could detect a note of homesickness in his voice, "it depends upon the point of view.

A country dance followed, in which none of the lord-lieutenant's party joined; then there was a consultation, a request, an inspection of the dancers, a message to the orchestra, and the band struck up a waltz; the duchess's daughters flew off to the music, and some more young ladies seemed ready to follow, but, alas! there was a lack of gentlemen acquainted with the new-fashioned dance.

We, as social creatures, can enjoy a thousand forms of expression quite beyond the personal. The birds must each sing his own song; the crickets chirp in millionfold performance; but human being feels the deep thrill of joy in their special singers, actors, dancers, as well as in their own personal attempts.

As he took her program and skirmished and joked after the way of young men, she realized the immediacy of delight she had taken in him. Never in her life had she been so affected by any man. He danced beautifully. The joy was hers that good dancers take when they have found a good dancer for a partner.

Hardships were nothing, but that Paris should be surrendered at last that was a humiliation which nothing could compensate. Many of the gay dancers whom we had known had fallen in battle, among them, René Vergniaud. He was shot in the heart in an engagement with the Prussians in the environs of Paris. I spent my next summer vacation with Miss St. Clair in Detroit. "When is Mr. Denham coming home?"

The Queen's eyes lighted. "We shall have dancing, then," she said. "The dance hath charms for me. We shall not deny our youth. The heart shall keep as young as the body." An instant later the room was full of dancers, and Elizabeth gave her hand to Leicester, who bent every faculty to pleasing her.

Ah, but when the post knocks and the letter comes always the miracle seems repeated speech attempted. Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. "Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is gay; the Russian dancers...." These are our stays and props.