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Then there arose the rippling of lutes from the ladies in the next room, in slow swaying measure, with the gentle tap of a drum now and again; and the pavane began a stately dignified dance; and among all the ladies moved the great Queen herself, swaying and bending with much grace and dignity.
So, father, you will never be able to say again that your concerts are not appreciated." "Well, I don't think that you will be disappointed, Sir Owen. This is one of the most interesting programmes we have had. You remember Ferrabosco's pavane which you liked so much " Margaret announced the arrival of Sir Owen's valet, and while Mr.
Innes approached to ask him his opinion, he sprang to his feet to tell him. One of the pieces they had heard was a pavane for five viols and a harpsichord, composed by Ferrabosco, son of the Italian musician who had settled in Greenwich at the end of the sixteenth century.
Watteau divined the sorrow of those who sit under colonnades always playing some part, great or small, in love's comedy, listening to the murmur of the fountain, watching a gentleman and lady advancing and bowing, bowing and retiring, dancing a pavane on a richly coloured carpet.
James, looking at Miss Corbet's glowing dress, "and to learn of the London fashions." Mary got up and curtseyed to the astonished bird, who looked at her with his head lowered, as he took a high step or two, and then paused again, with his burnished breast swaying a little from side to side. "He invites you to a dance," went on Mr. James gravely, "a pavane." Miss Corbet sat down again.
His voice had risen and stretched itself on a high, monotonous pitch. He was declaiming verse. 'Who doth not see the measures of the Moon? Which thirteen times she dances every year, And ends her Pavane thirteen times as soon As doth Hey? Do you know the lines, soldier? He stepped forward and peered close at my head while I shook it. 'Tush! a cut, a trifle!
Sir Owen was extraordinarily pleased and interested, and declared the pavane to be as complete as a sonata by Bach or Beethoven; but his appreciation was suddenly interrupted by someone looking at him. At a little distance, Evelyn stood looking at him. The moment she had seen him she had stopped, and her eyes were delighted as by a vision.
As she was listening to Ravel's "Pavane pour une Infante Defunte" she heard the doorbell. She knew that she could not get up without the most trying effort so, staring at the fire alarm some seconds, she finally raised herself briefly. She pushed the "test" button and continued to press it for a long moment of a sonorous outcry. Was her door unlocked? She hoped it was and wasn't.
This developed, and so far indeed did it go that in the evening a Pavane was suggested, and, the musicians being found, it was held in the great salon of the Chateau. It was then that the first alarm had penetrated to their midst.
Twelve years ago I saw those old instruments for the first time. Not one, I think, has disappeared. It was here that I first heard Ferrabosco's pavane." Innes remembered the pavane quite well, but refused to allow the conversation to digress into a description of Evelyn's playing of the viola da gamba.
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