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Louder and louder she played the air, and, humming it over, he drove his foot home. Shaking up the reins, he cantered his mule round and round the sun-dial in front of the door. Round and round he went, still humming, while those wiry and sun-burnt wrists pounded away at the dance-music. 'How long is this going on? I pleaded. I began to see the humor of the thing when I watched our carriers.
West London in satin and diamonds does not hear her sister East London in rags calling to her to deliver her. The voice of East London has been drowned in the dance-music of the West End." Sybell gazed with awed admiration at the apostle. "What a beautiful thought," she said. "Miss Gresley's Idyll of East London," said Hugh, "is a voice which, at any rate, has been fully heard."
They were called, without intentional irreverence, "Lord's fiddles." Violins were widely opposed, they savored too much of low, tavern dance-music. After much consultation a satisfactory compromise was agreed upon by which violins were allowed in many meetings, if the performers "would play the fiddle wrong end up."
Close to the way up from the pier, and commanding a view of the bay, stood the great place of amusement, with all its gates invitingly open, and the sound of dance-music floating out. Within was life and merriment. Silla stopped to look in and listen to the music, but Georgina, highly scandalised, pulled her on. Was that the place for a respectable girl to stop?
Doubtless her good mother thought she had had fatigue and excitement enough for one day; but it must have been hard for such a dance-loving girl to take her quivering feet out of the ball-room so early, and for such a grand personage as she already was, just referred to in the Mayor's speech, as "destined to mount the throne of these realms," to be sent away like a child, to mount a solemn, beplumed four- poster, and to try to sleep, with that delicious dance-music still ringing in her ears.
"I heard the dance-music in the distance," she said nervously. "It it made me want to go and dance." "I am sorry it disturbed you," he said gently. "It was only that then? You weren't really troubled about anything?" She hesitated, then, meeting the kindness of his look, her eyes suddenly filled with tears. She turned her head away in silence. He leaned towards her.
And yet, as she leaned back in her seat, her heart was dancing in time to the dance-music of Mrs Peagrim's hired orchestra. It puzzled Jill. And then, quite suddenly yet with no abruptness or sense of discovery, just as if it were something which she had known all along, the truth came upon her. It was Wally, the thought of Wally, the knowledge that Wally existed, that made her happy.
And the villagers laughed and cried, and gave him pence, and a night's lodging, and food; so that presently he was able to make himself a little travelling-stage, and hire a piper to play dance-music for him. But it was always the one story of himself and Grendel, and no other, though the two puppets wore crowns upon their heads. The little marionettes had hearts.
No, Mamsell, we'll stick to the old system." So they walked along through the splendor of spring, until music sounded in their ears. "Where does it come from?" asked the engraver. "From Rödchen," said she, absent-mindedly. "Let us go there. Dance-music ... I shouldn't mind ... among the peasant-folk ... How would it be?" "These are not peasants," she said.
The palms, and flowers, and lights which decorated the room; the orchestra's river of dance-music; the men, all in the black livery which on the surface marks the final conquest of civilization over barbarism; the beautiful gowns, the sparkling jewels, and the white shoulders and arms of the ladies all these made me wonder if I had not been transported to some Mayfair or Newport, so pictorial, so decorative, so charged with art, it seemed to be.
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