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Updated: June 14, 2025
All the rooms are large and have high windows which reach from the floor to the ceiling, so that it is almost as light inside as it is outside. The benches, walls, floors, windows, and stoves were as clean as if they had been in a ball-room.
Her mind rather sought its amusements in the ball-room, the promenade, the theatre, especially when she herself was a performer, and the concert-room, than in her library and among her books.
"Ah, Madam," he continued to the latter, "if you would only use your good offices in my behalf! Miss Carew is cruelty itself." "Why, what has she done?" asked the good gentlewoman. "Insisted upon deserting the ball-room!" "In my day," said the elderly ally of the nobleman, "you could not drag the young ladies from cotillion or minuet. And the men would stay till the dawn to toast them!"
Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room as you would desire to see upon a winter's night.
For leeches are plentiful in Australia, and even form an article of considerable export to England. We afterwards went out to Perry's harvest dance and supper, with which the gathering in of the crops is usually celebrated, as at home. The wheat had by this time all been sold and cleared out of the barn, and it was now rigged up as a ball-room.
"Indeed!" murmured Courtney indifferently, his eyes fixed on the slim, supple figure of the Princess Ziska as she slowly moved amid her circle of admirers out of the ball-room, her golden skirts gleaming sun-like against the polished floor, and the jewels about her flashing in vivid points of light from the hem of her robe to the snake in her hair.
You could go into any thronged assembly, a theatre, a ball-room, a house of parliament, and point me out, by hundreds, people with whose persons I am utterly unacquainted, and these would be the greatest men of the day.
And you do not believe!" I took both her hands in mine: "I believe you, I swear it I swear that I esteem you that I respect you as a beloved daughter but listen to me; pray, listen! do not brave openly this pitiless world return to the ball-room I'll join you there soon, I promise you but in the name of Heaven, do not compromise your fair fame!"
The young men of the present day are singularly careless in this respect; and when they have torn a lady's delicate skirt, appear to think the mischief they have done scarcely worth the trouble of an apology. A gentleman conducts his last partner to the supper-room, and, having waited upon her while there, re-conducts her to the ball-room.
"What are we to do with the table?" said Hester. "Oh," exclaimed Nora, her eyes sparkling, "we have such a heavenly ball-room at the Towers; a great enormous room, never used and full of rubbish, which can easily be turned out." "Is there a gallery to that room?" interrupted Annie. "Yes, at one end." "Then the whole thing is complete," continued Annie.
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