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"I don't care a great deal about dances these days; and if you aren't going to be there " "You could stay away," she suggested. "You wouldn't!" "Unfortunately, I can't. I'm afraid I'm supposed to be the excuse. Miss Lamb, in her capacity as a friend of my relatives " "Oh, she's giving it for YOU! I see! On Mildred's account you mean?" At that his face showed an increase of colour.
She accompanied her mother with outward resignation to small dinner dances and to the Matriarch balls, presided over by the newly elected social leader, a lady of unimpeachable Southern ancestry and indifference to wealth, who pledged her Virginia honor to Mrs. She was quite safe, for Mrs.
Nor, in these public Folk-ceremonies, these Spring festivals, Dances, and Plays, is there anything which, on the face of it, appears to bring them into touch with the central mystery of the Christian Faith.
'I see, said Miss Wendover, smiling at him; 'you don't quite like the afternoon dances and tennis parties at Bournemouth. 'Pray don't suppose I am jealous, said the Curate. 'My trust in my darling's goodness and purity is the strongest part of my love.
Katharine made Pellams come; it would be final evidence in their joke, since he was known to dislike dances. He agreed to attend, adding his own emphasis to the reason as stated. Katharine filled out his card for him, allowing him three dances with herself. The evening began in misery for the woman-hater, and ended in perturbation of spirit.
Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and comedies to a very numerous audiences; these are concluded with excellent music, variety of dances, and the excessive applause of those that are present. Not far from one of these theatres, which are all built of wood, lies the royal barge, close to the river.
The musicians were ranged out on a verandah, so that their music might have been available for dancing within or without; but the dancers had found the boards pleasanter than the lawn, and the Duke's garden party was becoming a mere ball, with privilege for the dancers to stroll about the lawn between the dances.
Molly, do you know whom you have been dancing with? I have found out he is the Coreham bookseller. 'That accounts for his being so well up in all the books I have been wanting to hear about, said Molly, eagerly, but with a spice of malice in her mind. 'He really was very pleasant, mamma, she added; 'and he looks quite a gentleman, and dances beautifully! 'Very well.
Immediately following came the folk dances, in which scores of pretty girls in costumes executed the national dances of the various foreign countries. These little maids tripped lightly to the fantastic dance music of the people of the old world for fully twenty minutes and as the last group began the final steps of a pretty Scotch fantasy Bruce stood up and mustered the scouts in line.
For ever since Decelea had been occupied, as the enemy commanded the roads leading from Athens to Eleusis, the procession, being conducted by sea, had not been performed with any proper solemnity; they were forced to omit the sacrifices and dances and other holy ceremonies, which had usually been performed in the way, when they led forth Iacchus.
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