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If the waltz and the polka and schottische sent her blood racing under such adverse conditions, what must it be like on a real floor with real music, she asked herself ecstatically. These dancing lessons were provocative of much merriment and teasing from the Toomeys. While Hugh did not resent it or defend Kate, he did not join in their ridicule of her.
"Not a bit, Mandy, come along," replied Cameron briskly. At that moment a shadow fell upon the square of moonlight on the floor. Mandy started back with a cry. "My! you scairt me. We were Allan Mr. Cameron was learnin' me the Highland schottische." Her face and her voice were full of fear. It was Perkins. White, silent, and rigid, he stood regarding them, for minutes, it seemed, then turned away.
If anyone seemed to be trying to cheat, the commissionaire would tap him politely on the arm with his stick. Gentlemen who had to be tapped many times were regarded as suspicious characters, and might, as a last resource, even be expelled. Order was admirably maintained. Waltz, mazurka, schottische, square dance, waltz.
"He's gone as far as he can go on the fiddle," explained Mary Ellen to the company. "Someday he'll give up the butchering business and take to music thorough." Mr. Watlin now, with the violin tucked under his chin, began to play in a very spirited manner. Our pulses beat time to lively polka and schottische while Mr. Watlin tapped on the carpet with his large foot as he played.
On another occasion he says: "Only with difficulty can I resist the temptation of filling a whole letter with agricultural lamentations over frosts, sick cattle, bad reap, bad roads, dead lambs, hungry sheep, want of straw, fodder, money, potatoes, and manure; outside Johann is persistently whistling a wretched schottische out of tune, and I have not the cruelty to interrupt it, for he seeks to still by music his violent love-sickness."
What was she to do refuse the roof he offered her? Enough that she did. Paris, a city of seething vice and corruption her home, the place wherein she danced her first catoucha, that catoucha which was so soon to be followed by her famous Japanese schottische, and later still by her celebrated Peruvian minuet.
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