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Updated: June 8, 2025
O'Shaughnessy called a "widdy" Christmas and getting supper, when a great stamping-off of snow proclaimed a newcomer. It was Gavotte, and we were powerfully glad to see him because the hired man was going to a dance and we knew Gavotte would contrive some unusual amusement.
There was Mademoiselle de Chaumont in the midst of gallants, and better prepared to dance a gavotte than any other charmer in the room. For her gauze dress, fastened on the shoulders so that it fell not quite off her bosom, reached only to the middle of the calf.
How delightful it had been! and when the enlarged band of city pipers struck up a gavotte her feet unconsciously kept time, and she could not help thinking of the last dance in the New Scales, the recruiting officer who had guided her so firmly and skilfully in the Schwabeln, and through him of her father, of whom she had not thought again since the good news received two evenings before.
Strangely enough, the gayest lady at the court was the very person, who gave the gossips the least occasion for scandal. A gavotte was just over, as Moor entered the superb rooms.
He knew well how to take the popular airs of the moment the gavotte or minuet or vaudeville which every one was singing: the good old airs, as we call them now, which then were the newest of the new and how to infuse into them his own personality and so to fit them like a glove to his own noëls.
"There, there, over yonder, look; Mother of Christ, look at the ghost!" the old man pointed a shaking hand. Just then the moonlight was blackened by a big cloud, and we heard the tinkling music of a harpsichord again, but could see naught. The sounds were plainer now, and presently resolved into the rhythmic accents of a gavotte. But it seemed far away and very plaintive!
Herr Seelenfromm, assistant to the apothecary Pflaum, had taught her. He was a cousin of Frau Rübsam, and she had become acquainted with him through Eleanore. In his leisure hours he composed waltzes and marches, and dedicated them to the princes and princesses of the royal family. He also dedicated one to Gertrude. It was entitled “Feenzauber,” and was a gavotte.
"Perhaps in Vauxhall," he interrupted her savagely, "but not here, not like that, not with me. This is not a gavotte. I didn't want it; I tried to get away; but it, you, had me in a breath. At once it was all over. God knows what it is. Call it love. It isn't a thing under a hedge, I tell you that, for an hour.
All that was most human in him, all that was weak in this strong and untamed nature, cried aloud for peace and luxury and idleness: for long summer afternoons spent in lazy content, for the companionship of horses and dogs and of flowers, with no thought or cares save those for the next evening's gavotte, no graver occupation save that of sitting at HER feet.
Tell him, with my compliments, not to play such latter-day tunes as the gavotte from Pagliacci." "Oh, I'll tell him, you may be sure," said he, quite dryly. We saluted and dashed down the road to Amboise, where we hoped to capture our rare prize. We had ridden about a mile when a dog attempted to cross our path. We all but ran the poor brute down. "Why, it's lame!" exclaimed Arnold.
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