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Updated: May 24, 2025
She extended a hand on whose palm rested a small and slender white cylinder, no longer and little thicker than the toy pencil that dangles from a dance-card: a tight roll of plain white paper enclosed in a wrapping of transparent oiled silk, gummed fast down its length and, at either end, sealed with miniature blobs of black wax. "Will you do this for me, Monsieur Duchemin?
"Oh, I was just thinking," Hope replied, "that it was much better to have a dance come to you, than to go to the dance." "Does one man and a dance-card and three bonbons constitute your idea of a ball?" "Doesn't it? You see, I am not out yet, I don't know." "I should think it might depend a good deal upon the man," Clay suggested. "That sounds as though you were hinting," said Hope, doubtfully.
"Yes, I did," Clay answered, unabashed. "I brought you some bonbons." "You didn't, really!" Hope cried, with a shriek of delight. "How absurd of you! The sort you pull?" "The sort you pull," Clay repeated, gravely. "And also a dance-card, which is a relic of barbarism still existing in this Southern capital.
This was done, and Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.
This was done, and Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.
There is a lesser formality, a greater gayety in the ballroom of to-day. The dance-card and program are no longer enjoying unrivaled vogue as they did when our grandmothers' danced the waltz and cotillon. The pauses between dances are shorter. Something of the old dignity is gone, but in its place is a new romance that is perhaps more gratifying.
This was done, and Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.
"Hello, Van!" Charlie Geary, young Haight, and Ellis came in together. "Hello, boys!" answered Vandover, hairbrush in hand, turning about from the mirror, where he had been trying to make his hair lie very flat and smooth. "Look here," said Geary, showing him a dance-card already full, "I've got every dance promised.
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