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He informed himself as to her diversions and her dancing-classes, making the discovery that what other girls' mothers did for them, Dorothea was doing for herself.
"I wish it were next Thursday," he said. "So do I," she replied. "I wish we could have two dancing-classes in the week instead of one!" "So do I," she said. "But we can't manage that," he continued. "You see we have two nights for the Language class!..." "You could have one night for the Language class," she said, "and two nights for dancing!" "I don't think Marsh would like that," he answered.
Steps and voices were audible beneath us; a group of young men, with worn faces, came along the street talking about dancing-classes.
She was unaware that she had made her mark upon Janet and Charlie so far back as the days of the dancing-classes. And she under-estimated the appeal of her situation as an orphan and a solitary whose mother's death, in its swiftness, had amounted to a tragedy. The scherzo was finished, and Alicia had not returned into the drawing-room. The two pianists sat hesitant. "Where is that infant?"
There was still enough of the former Albert Speranza left in his make-up to prevent his appearing in the least distressed or ill at ease. He was, as he had always been when in the public eye, even as far back as the school dancing-classes with the Misses Bradshaw's young ladies, perfectly self-possessed, charmingly polite, absolutely self-assured.
"And why didn't you tell me?" "Because I forgot, simply." He fumed a little. "A good-looking girl seemed a lady?" "I didn't look at her." "Big brown eyes?" "I did NOT look. And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you. Tell them that brazen baggages you meet at dancing-classes." "I'm sure she was a nice girl."
Though to me the question is made easy, for Sir Jasper would never hear of cricket for his daughters, scarcely of hunting, and we have taken away Valetta and Primrose from the dancing-classes since skirt-dancing has come in; but I fear Val thinks it hard." "Such things puzzle my sisters at Vale Leston.
Janet suddenly gave a gesture of intimacy. "I believe she's starving!" "Starving!" Hilda repeated in a blank whisper. "Yes, I do! I do really believe she hasn't got enough to eat. She's quarrelled with just about everybody there was to quarrel with. She suffers fearfully with rheumatism. She never goes out or scarcely ever. You know her dancing-classes have all fallen away to nothing.
It was a trophy that he hoped to win, and to that end he worked patiently, selling bonds all day, and at night as patiently setting forth in his galoches, his ulster, and his opera-hat to storm the outer works of society. He belonged to innumerable dancing-classes.
Was it conceivable that Charlie could be interested in religion? She liked him very much, partly because he and she had learnt to understand each other at the dancing-classes, and partly because his curly hair and his candid smile compelled sympathy. But her esteem for him had limits.
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