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"But how do you get ready?" "We must repent of our sins. And that's why mother wouldn't let me come to the dancing-class. She thinks it wrong, any way. And mother and Auntie are making their ascension robes. We go to church every night." The girls stood awestruck. "What's going to happen?" asked one. "Why, the world will be burned up. All those who love God are to be caught up to heaven.
Pennie sighed; Ethelwyn and the mandarin were both painful subjects to her, and she felt just now as though the world were full of trials. There was this dreadful dancing-class looming in the distance something awful and unknown, to which she was daily getting nearer and nearer.
She was known to have a snug little account in a savings-bank. It was for a marriage portion she was saving; but she was doing it so strenuously that she stinted herself the expense of a decent dress or hat, or the price of a ticket to a ball, picnic, or dancing-class.
They played on the floor like so many well-meaning bears; they threatened to fetch their poor, neglected Christmas-tree from the blacksmith-shop; they urged Miss Doc to start a candy-pull, a night-school, a dancing-class, and a game of blindman's-buff forthwith.
She proved such an attentive listener, and Pennie, after the restraint of the dancing-class, was so inclined to be confidential and talkative, that tea became a most agreeable and sociable meal. Betty, on her part, honoured the occasion by sending up hot-buttered cakes of peculiar excellence, which ever afterwards were closely connected with dancing in Pennie's mind.
Alice was unable to teach mathematics and moral science; but she formed a dancing-class, and gave lessons in singing and in a language which she believed to be current in France, but which was not intelligible to natives of that country travelling through Wiltstoken. Both sisters were devoted to one another and to their mother.
Harper was ready to endure anything to raise the much- needed money, and almost thought Lady Merrifield too particular when she discontinued the dancing-class for Valetta and Primrose. "That speaks for itself," said Mrs. Grinstead.
'Oh no, sir! It's Miss Wallas's dancing-class breaking up that's all. 'Breaking up? echoed the colonel, whose mind was sometimes a trifle slow in the uptake. 'She rents the room alternate Fridays, sir, and usually gives 'em a little treat just before Christmas. I don't know, pursued the waiter, meditatively laying two fingers wide on his chin, 'as many people would call it a treat.
Fox for all the privations, snubs and humiliations she had suffered since the years when she curled Connie's straight hair on a stick, nearly blinded herself tucking and embroidering her little dresses, and finished up the week's ironing herself so that her one maid could escort Connie to an exclusive little dancing-class.
"Oh, no!" replied Mrs Hawthorne lightly; "it's a great amusement to her, and she gets plenty of exercise." "Because," continued Miss Unity, speaking so fast that she was almost unintelligible, "if you thought so I thought that is, Mrs Merridew thought you might like her to join a dancing-class at the deanery." She paused, frightened at her own boldness.
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