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"I keep seeing those people dancing and hearing the band. I dropped a little bag did anybody find it?" "Yes, I have it here." He drew it out of his pocket, and put it in her hand, which feebly grasped it. "Rocca gave it to me at Florence once, I am very fond of it. I suppose you wonder that I loved him?"
He was a man who made friends quickly, and was soon at home among the students, roaring their favourite songs, and dancing their favourite dances at the dancing-places of that day, joining with a pleasant heartiness in all their innocent dissipations. For guilty dissipation the young provincial had no taste.
The Scotch band principally plays Scotch reels and dances. The music and this course of dancing continue till about four o'clock in the morning, when the lights are extinguished and the company disperses. On this evening, which was by no means considered as a full night, the company consisted of perhaps three thousand persons.
"The Governor is busy with my father and General Montcalm, and they will not be free for a long time. For your soldiers, I have been bribing them to my service these weeks past, and they are safe enough for to-day. Now I will tell you of that dancing. "One night last autumn there was a grand dinner at the Intendance.
When the Bakalahari women heard that the man-eater was dead, they all commenced dancing about with joy, calling me their father. Thrilling Adventures of Mr. Butler. The early history of Kentucky is one continued series of daring and romantic adventures. The hero of our story was one of these.
The meal was lighted only by the dancing flames from the hearth, and their faces glowed in the fitful light.
It was altogether a different scene from that which was called the court of Bleiberg. There was no restraint here; all was laughter, music, dancing, and wines. The women were young, the men were young; old age stood at one side and looked on. And the charming Voiture-verse of a countess, Maurice was determined to seek her first of all.
The leader carries a sword, on the point of which is generally impaled a cake; during the dancing slices of this cake are distributed to the lookers on, who are supposed to make a contribution to the 'Treasury, a money-box carried by an individual called the Squire, or Clown, dressed in motley, and bearing in the other hand a stick with a bladder at one end, and a cow's tail at the other.
'You do not know what a treasure you will be, said the Marquis, 'ladies like nothing so well as dancing with a fellow twice the height he should be. 'Beware of putting me forward, said Claude, rising, and, as he leant against the chimney-piece, looking down from his height of six feet three, with a patronising air upon his cousin, 'I shall be taken for the hero, and you for my little brother.
But though his sisters laughed at him, Adela Gauntlet, the daughter of the neighbouring vicar at West Putford, did not laugh. She so far approved that by degrees she almost gave over dancing herself.
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