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After all, I suppose if they found at the rehearsals that they didn't really need a mandarin I mean, that the fancy-ball scene wasn't necessary perhaps from their point of view they were right to cut it out. Don't have a lasting feud with Mitchell isn't he rather an important friend for you at the office? 'Edith, Mitchell shall never set foot under my roof never darken these doors again!
Winkle had conveyed the intelligence of the fancy-ball there, before him. 'Mrs. Pott's going, were the first words with which he saluted his leader. 'Is she? said Mr. Pickwick. 'As Apollo, replied Winkle. 'Only Pott objects to the tunic. 'He is right. He is quite right, said Mr. Pickwick emphatically. 'Yes; so she's going to wear a white satin gown with gold spangles.
'Men were deceivers ever. Not long ago, a Lovelace whose history is given in the New York Reports conducted himself in a manner that would be precisely analogous to that of your late husband, were it not that, instead of dying, he did what was less judicious, he married again and was sent up for bigamy. He too had omitted to secure a license. He also entertained a lady with a fancy-ball.
At present, however, the flood of light that poured from chandelier and bracket, and flashed upon the gorgeous furniture and on the red coats of the guests, seemed to forbid concealment, and certainly afforded a splendid spectacle a diplomatic reception, or a fancy-ball, could for brilliancy scarcely have exceeded it, though the parallel went no farther; for, with all this pomp and circumstance, there was not the slightest trace of ceremony.
But she did not sound the personal note, and they chatted quietly of commonplace things: of the dinner-dance at which they were presently to meet, of the costume she had chosen for the Driscoll fancy-ball, the recurring rumours of old Driscoll's financial embarrassment, and the mysterious personality of Elmer Moffatt, on whose movements Wall Street was beginning to fix a fascinated eye.
That could never have been more the case than on the occasion of my assuming, for the famous fancy-ball not at the operatic Academy, but at the dancing-school, which came so nearly to the same thing the dress of a débardeur, whatever that might be, which carried in its puckered folds of dark green relieved with scarlet and silver such an exotic fragrance and appealed to me by such a legend.
The third is the hideous Frank attire affected by Sierra Leone converts and 'white blackmen, as their fellow-darkies call them. Many of the costumes that made the decks of the s.s. Senegal hideous are de fantaisie, as if the wearers had stripped pegs in East London with the view of appearing at a fancy-ball.
'What does it mean, Ursula? Jill would say, opening her big black eyes as widely as possible: 'I do not understand. Mr. Erskine has been telling us that we ought to renounce the world and our own wills, and not to follow the multitude to do foolishness, and all the afternoon mother and Sara having been talking about dresses for the fancy-ball.
When she got home, she learned that she had a headache, and had not yet made her appearance. Notwithstanding her headache, however, Mrs. Redmain was going in the evening to a small fancy-ball, meant for a sort of rehearsal to a great one when the season should arrive.
If the Clerk of the Weather Office is unkind on both these days, give up out-door fun at once, and prepare for a fancy-ball in the nursery; all the guests to be dressed as May-day characters. Garland-making and country expeditions can then be deferred till Midsummer-day. It is not very long to wait, and penny trumpets do not spoil with keeping.
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