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But she could not speak, and Kirk went on in the same tone of half-tolerant contempt: "Who is he?" She controlled herself with an effort, and answered indifferently. "Oh, Basil? Well, you might say he's everything. He plays polo, leads cotillions, yachts, shoots, plays the piano wonderfully everything. People usually like him very much." She paused. "Women especially."
Andrews, looking troubled, and moving uneasily in her chair. "Cotillions, I presume," was answered, carelessly. "Not dancing, surely!" But, even as Mrs. Andrews said this, a man entered, carrying in his hand a violin. There was an instant movement on the part of several younger members of the company; partners were chosen, and ere Mrs.
True, his pieces were mainly venerable dance tunes, cotillions, hornpipes, melodies which had passed from fiddler to fiddler until they had become veritable folk-songs, pieces like "Money Musk," "Honest John," "Haste to the Wedding," and many others whose names I have forgotten, but with a gift of putting into even the simplest song an emotion which subdued us and silenced us, he played on, absorbed and intent.
I rested every moment I could, never stood when I might sit, made no useless motions, spent no strength in sorrow, had no sentiment, was simply the engineer of a machine my own body; could fall asleep soon as I lay down, and wake any moment with my senses all alert, outlived my prejudice about china cups, and drank tea from brown earthen mugs used for soup, and never washed save in cold water; often ate from a tin plate with my left hand, while my right held a stump to prevent that jerking of the nerves which is so agonizing to the patient, many a time eating from the same tin plate with my patient, and making merry over it; and think I must have outstanding engagements to dance cotillions with one hundred one-legged men.
He's been out of college a couple of years and hasn't done anything worth speaking of yet." "Reeves is going to take him into the business," returned Mr. Evringham. "I don't know why or wherefore, but the mere fact is decidedly promising." "Oh, who can tell if that will last!" returned the other with scornful pessimism. "Nat has let too many cotillions to do anything else well.
"Once in a while. You know," said I, lighting a cigarette, "all the fellows but you and I had money. Most of them are carrying on the business of their paters and ornamenting dinner parties and cotillions." "I thought that you had a rich uncle," said Dan. "I did have, but he is no more," and I told him all about the bequest.
All the dancers, for the most part strangers, had taken possession of the territory, as they do at every wedding-ball, and were keeping up the endless figures of the cotillions, while the gamblers were still crowding round the bouillotte tables, and old Crevel had won six thousand francs. The morning papers, carried round the town, contained this paragraph in the Paris article:
The invisible lever of gravitation, however, without any fulcrum or purchase, does lift the globe, and makes it waltz, too, with its blonde lunar partner, twelve hundred miles a minute to the music of the sun ay, and heaves sun and systems and Milky Way in majestic cotillions on its ethereal floor.
From his sophomore year he has been in constant demand for cotillions, house parties and yachting trips.
As soon as they were joined by the Thorpes, Catherine's agony began; she fidgeted about if John Thorpe came towards her, hid herself as much as possible from his view, and when he spoke to her pretended not to hear him. The cotillions were over, the country-dancing beginning, and she saw nothing of the Tilneys.
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