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"And Patsey," said she, "ride for your life; and Patsey, whatever you do, don't come back without Mr. Green's pumps his dancing-shoes you know." And in about two hours the pumps did arrive; and I don't think I ever spent a pleasanter evening or got more satisfaction out of a pair of shoes.
"Here, Hans!" she said, "this is Pelle, whose doing it is that we two belong to each other!" Then she laughed aloud for sheer delight, and Hans, smiling, held out his hand to Pelle. "I ought to thank you for it," he said. "Yes, it was that dance," she said. "If my dancing-shoes hadn't been mended Hans would have run off with somebody else!" She seized Pelle's arm.
And what's this with a grey gown and a black velvet cap? it's a father! And what's this with a clarionet? It's an uncle! And what's this in dancing-shoes? It's a sister! And what's this straggling about in an idle sort of a way? It's a brother! And what's this thinking for 'em all?
"Oh, well!" continued he, "it is Mother Millot, our portress, another of your good friends, neighbor, and whose poultices I recommend to you. Come in, Mother Millot come in; we are quite bonny boys this morning, and ready to step a minuet if we had our dancing-shoes." The portress came in, quite delighted.
Now all the people went out of the church, and the old lady got into the carriage. Karen raised her foot to get in after her, when the old soldier said "Look, what beautiful dancing-shoes!" And Karen could not help dancing a step or two, and when she began, her feet continued to dance; it was just as if the shoes had power over them.
I ought to have some junk we can soak. Let's go see." The investigation resulted in the conversion of a pair of new wing-toed dancing-shoes and a silver cigarette-case into an ice-bag and an electric fan. "I could stand everything else," said Rose, "if we could just get the children out of the house.
"Here, Hans!" she said, "this is Pelle, whose doing it is that we two belong to each other!" Then she laughed aloud for sheer delight, and Hans, smiling, held out his hand to Pelle. "I ought to thank you for it," he said. "Yes, it was that dance," she said. "If my dancing-shoes hadn't been mended Hans would have run off with somebody else!" She seized Pelle's arm.
Had the coincidence escaped her that from this night, of one man's rage and another's bliss, the ugly charge had dated? Of these things a girl may not testify. They met in town on the Saturday before the dance, Hetty buying her dancing-shoes at the back of the store, where the shoe-cases framed in a snug little alcove for the exhibition of a "fit."
Marian Leslie and Julia Davis were there accommodated with the loan of a small room by the major's wife, and as they were brushing their hair, and putting on their dancing-shoes, something was said between them about Maurice Cumming. "And so you are to be Mrs. C. of Mount Pleasant," said Julia. "Well; I didn't think it would come to that at last."
There was something glistening up among the trees, and she thought it was the moon, for she saw a face. But it was the old soldier with the red beard: he sat and nodded, and said: "Look, what beautiful dancing-shoes!" Then she was frightened, and wanted to throw away the red shoes; but they clung fast to her. And she tore off her stockings; but the shoes had grown fast to her feet.
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