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As dancing was the chief amusement at nearly all of the young people's parties in Oakdale, the floor was filled from the beginning of the first waltz until supper was announced. This was served at two long tables in the dining room, Mrs. Gray occupying the seat of honor at the head of one, and Miss Thompson, who was a favorite at High School parties, the other.
"We ought not to have gone," exclaimed Vixen. "My love, you should have said so at the time." "Mamma, you know I was strongly against it." Mrs. Tempest shrugged her shoulders as who should say, "This is too much!" "I know your dress cost a small fortune, and that you danced every waltz, Violet," she answered, "that is about all I do know." "Very well, mamma, let us accept all the invitations.
She could still go through the mummery as Cutty had planned; but what about all the sublime generosity of the preceding night? A queer feeling pervaded her: She was a marionette, a human manikin, and some invisible hand was pulling the wires that made her do all these absurd things. Her own mind no longer controlled her actions. The persistence of that waltz!
Such eyes, now soft and dreamy, then lit up with a merry challenge, had rested on the handsome young American tourist in the vaulted halls of the Wiener Café, where the Waltz King's witching melodies ruled the happy hour.
The Ellangowans had arrived, and Lady Ellangowan, who was full of good-nature, was quite ready to take Violet under her wing when Mrs. Scobel suggested that operation. "I can find her any number of partners," she said. "Oh, there she goes off already with Captain Winstanley." The Captain had lost no time in exacting his waltz.
And it was at this very moment that a wave of silence, beginning at the door, rushed across Milligan's dance floor. It stopped the bartenders in the act of mixing drinks; it put the musicians out of key, and in the midst of a waltz phrase they broke down and came to a discordant pause. What was it?
How many times have we not laughed over these recollections, already so remote. Toward midnight mamma made a sign to me with her eyes, and under cover of a lively waltz we slipped out of the drawing-room. In the hall the servants, who were passing to and fro, drew aside to let us go by them, but I felt that their eyes were fixed upon me with the curiosity which had pursued me since the morning.
The temple was marked by a hatchet-gash, the scalp was gone, the eyes were wide open and, burned with a terrible light. Walking to the bride the body drew her from the arms of her husband, who, like the rest of the company, stood as in a trance, without the power of motion, and clasping her to its bosom began a waltz.
According to his contemporaries Wagner's music dramas were lacking in melody. Sweet Marie is certainly a melody; why is it not as good a melody as The Old Folks at Home? Why is Musetta's waltz more popular than Gretel's? It is no better as melody.
"I beg you to confirm your charge in the usual manner," said he, with a cold, indifferent glance at the paper. "Murder is a dreadful accusation you cannot act too carefully. You say that an Austrian officer intends to murder the King of Prussia. How do you know this?" "From himself," said Baron Waltz. "He communicated his intentions to me, and confided to me his entire plan."
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