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Here is this Hicks, then Captain Launcelot Hicks, if you please whose life is nothing but breakfast, smoking, riding-school, billiards, mess, polking, billiards, and smoking again, and da capo pulling down his moustaches, and going to take a tour after the immense labors of the season. "How do you do, Captain Hicks?" I say. "Where are you going?"
But Dante, all Dante is in his heart and head. And he has seen Tennyson face to face; and he knows and loves Carlyle; and he has visited Sorrento and trod upon Monte Calvano. Oh, the world in this year 1845 must be studied, though solitude is best. He has been "polking" all night, and walked home while the morning thrushes piped; and it is true that his head aches.
And to think that I should have known him when I was the merest girl, and have danced my very first polka with him when it first came in, and people wore polka boots and polka jackets, and wrote their notes of invitation upon polka paper, and sang polka songs, and worked polking peasants in Berlin wool, and went on altogether in the most absurd manner.
"Why don't you ask Nellie here for a dance?" said Ruth Earp. And Nellie blushed. He gathered that the possible honour of dancing with the supremely great man had surpassed Nellie's modest expectations. "Can I have the next one?" he said. "Oh, yes!" Nellie timidly whispered. "It's a polka, and you aren't very good at polking, you know," Ruth warned him. "Still, Nellie will pull you through."
There is the King of the Clothes Brushes himself polking with Mrs. Finch. Can't you see? 'No! I wish I could. 'An economical fellow! Every man his own clothes brush two expenses saved at once, to say nothing of soap, an article that mayhap he does not deal in. 'Oh! hush! you will make me laugh too much. Where 's Theodora? 'Dancing with Gardner.
They think of it, dream of it, long for it. Is it amusement? Yes, to a few, possibly. The vigor of polking and church-going are proportioned; as is the one so is the other. My young friend, I am no ascetic, and do not suppose a man is damned because he dances.
Greek and Hebrew are mere play to a heroine; Sanscrit is no more than a b c to her; and she can talk with perfect correctness in any language, except English. She is a polking polyglot, a Creuzer in crinoline. Poor men.
Five of my men were professional boatmen, but no one understood the management of paddles except myself. It was in vain that I attempted to instruct my crew. Pull they certainly did; but ye gods who watch over boats! round and round we pirouetted, the two canoes waltzing and polking together in their great ball-room, the Albert N'yanza. The voyage would have lasted ad infinitum.
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