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Updated: May 10, 2025
For Mr Meggs's home-town was no City of Pleasure. Remove the Vicar's magic-lantern and the try-your-weight machine opposite the post office, and you practically eliminated the temptations to tread the primrose path. The only young men in the place were silent, gaping youths, at whom lunacy commissioners looked sharply and suspiciously when they met. The tango was unknown, and the one-step.
And presently Amaryllis, standing safely with John, saw Verisschenzko dancing the maddest one-step with Madame Boleski, their undulations outdoing all others in the room! The day after the wonderful rejoicing which the homecoming of Amaryllis had been the occasion of at Ardayre, she was sitting waiting for her husband in that exquisite cedar parlour which led from her room.
The restaurant was crowded, and the coloured band, from the space against the wall on their left, was playing a lively one-step. Ferrani was buttonholed by an important client as they crossed the threshold, and they lingered for a moment, waiting for his guidance. Whilst they stood there, a curious thing happened.
Everything that he had got in life had come from waiting and Hermia, his philosophy told him, must be no exception to the rule. The winter drew on toward spring. Lent arrived, and society, quite bored and thoroughly exhausted, halted in the mad round of the "one-step" and turned to calmer delights.
She threw her arms about Ruth and attempted a few turns of the one-step glide. "Oh, stop! I'm slipping!" cried Ruth, for the sidewalk was icy. "Alice, let me go!" "Not until you take a few more steps! Now dip!" "But, Alice! I'm going to fall! I know I am! There! I told you " But Ruth did not get a chance to use the favorite expression of Mr. Sneed, if such was her intention.
Later in the evening Lawrence Armitage asked her for a one-step, and she vainly imagined that, after all, she had made an impression on him. Radiant with triumph over her social success, Mignon saw herself firmly entrenched in the leadership she dreamed would be hers. But her triumph was to be short-lived.
The latter was swinging his arms and body in a snakey, serpentine one-step, as he glided down the floor, pushing other couples out of the way. Lorna, like the other girls, lost no opportunity to admire her own reflection in the mirrors. Burke was tempted to rush forward and intercede, to pull her out of the arms of the repulsive Baxter.
Lots of young hicks' start in on a foxtrot all free and clear, and before the orchestra has swung into the next one-step they've said the fatal words that gets 'em pushing a baby carriage within a year. Same with a lot of other moves that count big. Gettin' Buddy wished on us, for instance.
The graphophone will furnish music, there are some good one-step and waltz records Skinny and I were playing them this afternoon and every blessed cowboy on the Quarter Circle KT must be there!" A short silence followed her words, then a chorus of "We'll be there!" greeted her.
"I should have liked to have practised with you in the passage," he said ruefully. "Still, there are other dances," Joan Whitworth suggested. "The one-step?" "That's going for a walk," said Harry Luttrell. "In an unusual attitude," Joan added demurely. "Do you know the fox-trot?" "A little." "The twinkle step?" "Not at all." "I might teach you that," Joan suggested. "Oh, do! Teach it me now!
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