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Updated: May 14, 2025
Dance-music was pouring from the arched recesses above the doorways, and chandeliers of coloured Murano glass diffused a soft brightness over the pilasters of the stuccoed walls, and the floor of inlaid marbles on which couples were rapidly forming for the contradance.
But under them, on the floor below, the stillness in the cottage was merrily broken by an outburst of dance-music with a rhythmical thump-thump of feet, keeping time to the cheerful tune. Toff was playing his fiddle; and Toff's boy was dancing to his father's music. After waiting a day or two for news from Amelius, and hearing nothing, Rufus went to make inquiries at the cottage.
The swirl and sweep of ever-shifting waters, the flying mist of foam breaking away into a gray and ghostly distance down the beach, the eternal drone of ocean, mingling itself with one's talk by day and with the light dance-music in the parlors by night all these are active sources of a passive pleasure.
Now arrived that moment he had most painfully anticipated, and dance-music drifted on the night; but there came a tapping upon his door and a soft voice spoke. "Will-ee?" With a sharp exclamation William swung his legs over the edge of the bed and sat up. Of all things he desired not, he desired no conversation with, or on the part of, Jane.
Already the height of the season was over, for it was September now, but the gay little watering-place seemed crowded still, and in our knickerbockers, with our pack-mule and donkeys, and their attendants, we must have added a fantastic note to the dance-music which the very breezes play among tree-branches at light-hearted Aix. "Pretty, isn't it?"
"At your feet, Cora," he said, seating himself upon a stool, and leaning toward her. "Isn't it appropriate that we should talk to music we two? It shouldn't be that quick step though not dance-music should it?" "Don't know 'm sure," murmured Cora. "You were kind to dance with me," he said huskily. "I dared to speak to you " She did not change her attitude nor the direction of her glance.
The clarion sweetness of the dance-music, now pealing loudly on the air, irritated his nerves, the lights, the flowers, the brilliancy of the whole scene jarred upon his soul, what was it all but sham, he thought! a show in the mere name of friendship! an ephemeral rose of pleasure with a worm at its core!
"It's like music far-away music," said the Mole, nodding drowsily. "So I was thinking," murmured the Rat, dreamful and languid. "Dance-music the lilting sort that runs on without a stop but with words in it, too it passes into words and out of them again I catch them at intervals then it is dance-music once more, and then nothing but the reeds' soft thin whispering."
Brisetout a fine courtesy, and heard Gaudissart remark to his mistress: "Can Garangeot do the dance-music for the Mohicans in twelve days? If he helps me out of my predicament, he shall have Pons' place."
"The marquis is a real deus ex machina," exclaimed she. "Wherever you need him, he appears and helps you out of your trouble. But seriously, my dear count, let it now suffice with these gloomy suspicions. They are already commencing the dance-music, and you will put me out of tune with your croaking.
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