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Updated: July 11, 2025
The empty case dropped from his hands to the silver-crowded, lace-covered table; he was startled to see in the mirror, hung with its frivolous load of cotillion favors and dance cards, his own face convulsed with grief, and turned, appalled, from his own image. His resourceful brain refused its functions. He could not guess her movements after that silent, definitive leave taking.
If one might credit the papers, the diamonds that were worn at one of these balls were valued at twenty million dollars. The stranger was quite overwhelmed by all the splendour. There was a cotillion danced by two hundred gorgeously clad women and their partners a scene so gay that one could only think of it as happening in a fairy legend, or some old romance of knighthood.
The whole of their hilarity seems to consist in the movement of the dance, in which they are by not means animated; and I have seen, even among the common people, a cotillion performed as gravely and as mechanically as the ceremonies of a Chinese court. I have always thought, with Sterne, that we were mistaken in supposing the French a gay nation.
Perkins had been rather a convenience, and to lead the cotillion with Jack Smith was a delight that entirely divested the other man of all importance. The rehearsal went through with a dash; Lillian was all animation and witchery, and the love-scene was perfectly acted, though Ted Perkins sat glowering in the privileged audience.
Anyhow I am not allowed to use rouge." "Not allowed!" she observed. "What has that got to do with it? I don't understand you, Bab; you are totaly changed." "I am suffering," I said. I was to. Just then the maid brought me a folded note. Hannah was hanging up my wraps, and did not see it. Jane's eyes fairly bulged. "I hope you have saved the Cotillion for me," it said. And it was signed.
"Most attractive diners and weekenders," said I. "They got all the laughs at your dinner to the Archbishop of Decanterbury, and their man Smathers tells me they're the swellest things going at week-end parties because of his ingenuity at cotillion leading and her undeniable charms as a flirt. By Jove! she's that easy with men that even I tremble with anxiety whenever she comes into the house."
Jonas. A toy harness from the cotillion favors jangled on her dress. She had sunk laughing on a bench to get breath. "Yes," she told Mr. Jonas, "we go in the morning, to Cannes Brulée." Alexina was coming up on the porch and to Molly. Straight she slipped to her knees and her arms went around her mother. "Dear me, Malise," said Molly.
Irene moved mechanically through the airy mazes of the dance, straining her ear to catch the mellow voice which uttered such graceful, fascinating nothings to Salome. Several times in the course of the cotillion Russell's hand clasped her, but even then he avoided looking at her, and seemed engrossed in conversation with his gay partner.
Bennet's taste in flowers, I believe most girls would care far more about that invitation than they would about the roses!" "Really!" Arethusa brightened up considerably. "I'd let a man laugh at me every day from now till Christmas if he'd ask me to go to the January Cotillion with him," continued Ross, "that is, if I was a young lady with any hope of being a social success."
I am going as a Pierette; you know, a short skirt and a little cap. The Marquise gave a ball some few days ago. I danced the cotillion with L , who, as you know, dances divinely; il m'a fait la cour, but it is of course no use, you know that. "The other night we went to see the Maître-de-Forges, a fascinating play, and I am reading the book; I don't know which I like the best.
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