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Through the year past they had been to a dancing-class identical, except for an earlier hour and age, with mature affairs; but before that they had been practically introduced to the pleasures of their inheritance. The men were really boys at the university, past the first year, receptacles of unlimited worldly knowledge and experience.

But for some saving clause in him, he should have loved and married one of the many other girls who had belonged to the same dancing-class, who would have been known as "Mrs. Tom" Corbin, who would have been sought after as a chaperone, and who would have stood up in her cart when he played polo and shouted at him across the field to "ride him off."

Bennett; but he never would allow her to sing a note, and he taught very dull, old-fashioned pieces. How sick she was of pieces, and of playing them religiously before her father at least once a week! Her dancing was better, for she had to go to Warwick to a dancing-class, and there were other girls, and they made it exciting. But compared to school, and in especial Mrs.

And he mopped his face; the conflict between love and loyalty had been exhausting. "Harley Bowdoin? Dear me!" cried Mr. James. "How far has it gone?" "It canna go too far for the gude o' the young man," said Jamie testily. "But I was bound to tell ye, and I ha' done so." "Does he go to your house, Salem Street?" Jamie nodded. "He's aye there tha Fridays." "Dancing-class nights," muttered Mr.

"Children, stop quarreling," said Miss Morton, half laughing at the angry combatants whose flushed faces showed signs of coming tears. But Patty laughed outright. "What sillies you are," she said, "to squabble so over nothing." When school was over, it was time for luncheon, and after that Ethelyn told Patty that it was the afternoon for dancing-class and they were all to go.

"I went to the dancing-class the other day to see a most unwilling Mhor trip fantastically, and I saw a tiny girl take the hand of an older girl and look admiringly up at her. The older child, with the awful heartlessness of childhood wriggled her hand away and turned her back on her small admirer.

"I wish I had brought my best apron over," said Harriett, "for then I could have stayed for dinner if you wanted me to." "Why can't you stay anyhow?" asked Teddy. "Oh, I can't," said Harriett. "I must go to dancing-class right after dinner, and I have to wear my apron with the embroidered ruffles."

She kept her love for the Latin and often read to him. She began to draw and paint flowers, she joined the dancing-class, which was a delight to her; but Chilian suggested she should not mention it to Elizabeth. She pirouetted up and down the path like a fairy, and he loved to watch her.

An' how funny as you should ha' married your Mester. You know he's quite a famous one for dancing." "I didn't know he was famous," laughed Mrs. Morel. "Yea, he is though! Why, he ran that dancing-class in the Miners' Arms club-room for over five year." "Did he?" "Yes, he did." The other woman was defiant.

She had to wear one now for dancing-class, as it made movement and spacing so different; but other times she went her wilful way, short nose in air, encouraged by the complacence of her father, who had no more knowledge of what the country people called her "goings-on" than if he had lived in an alien clime. Hilaria was a hoyden.