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Yes, that would all happen. We should denounce those people in round terms, and call them hard names. And suppose we found this paragraph in the newspapers: "Yesterday a visiting party of American pork-millionaires had a picnic in Westminster Abbey, and in that sacred place they ate their luncheon, sang popular songs, played games, and danced waltzes and polkas." Would the English be shocked?
CAPT. G. I was thinking whether I should have to go on crutches for the rest of my life if you trod on my toes. MISS T. Very likely. Why not change Eleven for a square? CAPT. G. No, please! I want them both waltzes. Won't you write them down? MISS T. I don't get so many dances that I shall confuse them. You will be the offender. CAPT. G. Wait and see!
Stretching out his hand he took a little pile of music from the top of it. "But you play, then!" he exclaimed, pleased. "No, no! I tap only. And very little." He glanced through the pieces of music. They were all, without exception, waltzes, by the once popular waltz-kings of Paris and Vienna, including several by the king of kings, Berger.
One of Strauss's waltzes, or Schubert's melodies played on the piano by the band-master completed the illusion; and yet we had only to rub off the thin incrustation of frozen vapour that covered the panes of the windows, to look out upon the gigantic and terrible forms of the icebergs dashed against each other by a black and broken sea, and the whole panorama of Polar nature, its awful risks, and its sinister splendours.
Since eight o'clock this morning you've been at it. I could hear you whenever I went, mixing up hymns and waltzes and things with 'God Save the King. I tried to get a bit of lunch at half past one, but I had to fly from the house." "It's over now anyhow," said Dr. O'Grady. "And you needn't sell the piano. I've given up the idea of producing a new version of that tune for the Lord-Lieutenant.
But Strauss's music is singularly flat and hollow and dun, joyless and soggy, even though it is dotted with waltzes and contains the delightful introduction to the third act, and the brilliant trio. It has all the worst faults of the libretto.
Most of the men were at the band-stand in the public gardens from the Club verandah you could hear the native Police band hammering stale waltzes or on the polo-ground, or in the high-walled fives-court, hotter than a Dutch oven. Half a dozen grooms, squatted at the heads of their ponies, waited their masters' return.
At the next Sergeants' Dance at the Institute I did not like Burker's manner to my wife at all. It was well, amorous, and tinged with a shade of proprietorship. I distinctly heard him call her "Dolly," and equally distinctly saw an expressively affectionate look in her eyes as he hugged her in the waltzes whereof they indulged in no less than five. My position was awkward and unpleasant.
Trixy's grand field night is over Edith's first ball has come to an end, and the first night of her new life. "Two waltzes," said Trix, counting on her fingers; "that's two; one cracovienne, that's three; les lanciers, that's four; one galop, that's five; and one polka quadrille, that's six. Six dances, round and square, with Sir Victor Catheron.
But somehow it was done before I knew. He waltzes so divinely that it intoxicates me, and then I naturally cease to be responsible for my actions." Doris Fielding leant back luxuriously, her hands clasped behind her head. "I can't think what he wants to marry me for," she said reflectively. "I am quite sure I don't want to marry him."
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