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Updated: June 6, 2025
These men, as well as those of the tribe belonging to King George's Sound, being tempted by the offer of some tubs of rice and sugar, were persuaded to hold a "corrobery," or great dancing-party. As soon as it grew dark, small fires were lighted, and the men commenced their toilet, which consisted in painting themselves white in spots and lines.
He admitted to having repeatedly spoken of London's charms, and 'Oh, yes! you and I'll go back together, Richie, and saying that satisfied him: he doubled our engagements with Janet that afternoon, and it was a riding party, a dancing-party, and a drawing of a pond for carp, and we over to Janet, and Janet over to us, until I grew so sick of her I was incapable of summoning a spark of jealousy in order the better to torture Temple.
"We should so like to have you present," said Medora. "It will be rather bright and lively, and you would be sure to meet any number of pleasant people. You would enjoy it, I know." Abner shook his head. Fancy him, a serious man, with a reputation to nourish and to safeguard, caught up in any such fandango as that! "I have never attended a dancing-party yet," he said.
The infection spread from 'change, the theatre, the church, the town-hall, the academy, the market, into private houses, and that in less than a fortnight after the terrible performance of the "Huguenots." Its first symptoms appeared in the house of Collaert, the banker. That wealthy personage gave a ball, or at least a dancing-party, to the notabilities of the town.
The young man broke the wafer of his invitation and unfolded the paper. "It is a dancing-party," he remarked. His nose took an aquiline curve peculiar to him. The open sheet, as he held it, showed the name of "Dr. Dunlap" written on the outside. He leaned against a high black mantel. "You will want hot shaving-water and your best ruffled shirt," urged the friar.
The result half convinced her that she had been occupied during her first London season in displaying, at great pains, a very unripe self-consciousness or, as she phrased it, in making an insufferable fool of herself. Shortly afterwards, she met Lucian at a cinderella, or dancing-party concluding at midnight.
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