Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 10, 2025
Once he broke away from Miss Forsyth and went and asked Miss Satterly for the next waltz; but she opened her big eyes at him and assured him politely that she was engaged. He tried for a quadrille, a two-step, a schottische even for a polka, which she knew he hated; but the schoolma'am was, apparently, the most engaged young woman in Dry Lake that night.
At that day, though it is not so very long ago, gentlemen were not ashamed to dance, and to dance well; it was no languid saunter through a quadrille; it was fair, deliberate, skilful dancing amongst the courtly, free, bounding movement amongst the gay.
Not venturing to speak to him, lest he should discover his mistake, she shrugged her shoulders and turned away. "All right! sulk as long as you please. It hurts no one but yourself, my dear," exclaimed the Captain, sauntering off. She saw Beatrix Pendleton, in her dress, moving merrily through the quadrille, or floating around in the waltz.
But it was only John March, who was saying, in his heart: "She's got a perfect right to take me or throw me, but she's no right to do both!" Only the Northerners enjoyed Halliday. The Suez men turned away in disdain. The music struck a quadrille, sweetly whining and hooting twice over before starting into doubtful history, "In eighteen hundred and sixty-one to the war! to the war!"
She did not say to herself, "He must be a peer of France!" but "Oh, if only he is noble, and he surely must be " Without finishing her thought, she suddenly rose, and followed by her brother the General, she made her way towards the column, affecting to watch the merry quadrille; but by a stratagem of the eye, familiar to women, she lost not a gesture of the young man as she went towards him.
"And now," she added, speaking in a louder tone, we had better give our minds to the present scene of the farce, and perform the opening quadrille, as is expected of us!" "I am truly sorry, Signora, that you should be called upon to do this sort of thing, when you are so unwell, as to make it even more disagreeable than it might be to you otherwise.
No man can waltz too well; but to perform steps in a quadrille is not only unnecessary but outré. A gentleman cannot ask a lady to dance without being first introduced to her by some member of the hostess's family. Never enter a ball-room in other than full evening dress, and white or light kid gloves. A gentleman cannot be too careful not to injure a lady's dress.
"There can't be any quarrel at all," said Lady Chiltern. "I'm not sure of that," said Lady Glencora. "They are not so very loving." Lady Eustace made the most of her opportunity. Soon after the quadrille was over she asked Lord Fawn to get her carriage for her. Of course he got it, and of course he put her into it, passing up and down-stairs twice in his efforts on her behalf.
Lyon Berners led his fair partner to a seat, left her there and came to speak to his wife. But it was not until her group of admirers had separated to go in search of partners for the ensuing quadrille, that he had an opportunity of speaking to her privately. "How are you enjoying yourself?" he inquired, on general principles. "I am looking on.
One could imagine their panting breath beneath their masks. One of them, who had taken his place in the most famous quadrille, as substitute for an absent celebrity, the handsome "Songe-au-Gosse," was trying to keep up with the tireless "Arete-de-Veau" and was making strange fancy steps which aroused the joy and sarcasm of the audience.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking