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After the contredanse I went up to the mistress of the house, who displayed for the benefit of her guests a dazzling bosom and magnificent shoulders. She was beautiful, and, from the point of view of figure, more beautiful than Marguerite. I realized this fact still more clearly from certain glances which Marguerite bestowed upon her while I was talking with her.
Mademoiselle vould she do me de plaisir de honneur to dance one minuet?" "Oh, if she would but dance!" whispered some of the group of young ladies. "Excuse me, sir," said Miss Warwick. "Not a minuet? den a minuet de la cour, a cotillon, or contredanse, or reel; vatever mademoiselle please vill do us honneur."
Together they went to the port, a peaceful, solitary basin, its entrance half concealed by a curving rocky arm of the sea. Only now and then the masts of some sailing vessel coming to take on a load of oranges for Marseilles, appeared before this blue town with its surrounding waters. Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface.
Gad, sir, what a beautiful creature she was when I danced with her on the birthday of Prince Attila of Bavaria, in '44. Prince Carloman was our vis-a-vis, and Prince Pepin danced the same CONTREDANSE. She had a Polyanthus in her bouquet.
"Thank you very much," she said mechanically, trying to collect her thoughts. "Will your ladyship honour me with the CONTREDANSE until your coach is ready?" asked Lord Fancourt. "No, I thank you, my lord, but and you will forgive me I really am too tired, and the heat in the ball-room has become oppressive." "The conservatory is deliciously cool; let me take you there, and then get you something.
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