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Marsa turned to the Prince with a look full of passionate admiration and devotion, which told him how thoroughly his love was returned. The quadrille had ended, and a waltz was beginning. The little Japanese, with his eternal smile, like the bronze figures of his country, was dancing with a pre-raphaelite English girl. "How well you dance," she said.
And what gaiety and go there was about it all' You asked your partner in the upper-boxes to dance with you, from the floor of the house, and she, to lose no time, came down outside the balustrades, faithfully passed down by friendly hands. When the quadrille was over you met jolly comrades everywhere, with their partners astride on their shoulders, shaking hands as it were two stories at a time.
His cousin touched him on the shoulder, "Are not you going to dance?" he asked. "I suppose so," with the slightest possible shrug. "Miss Costello, if you are disengaged, will you dance this quadrille with me?" Lucia turned when he spoke. The same deep crimson flush came to her face as when their eyes had first met that morning.
Once or twice, a recitation, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scotch accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sought in vain to dance a quadrille, eight men of us together, to the music of the violin.
"Oh, I see," returned Donna Tullia, flushing quickly; "the Duchessa is dancing the cotillon with you. I beg your pardon I had forgotten that you still danced." "Indeed it is long since I did myself the honour of asking you for a quadrille, madam," answered Astrardente with a polite smile; and so saying, he turned and presented the little tiger to his wife with a courtly bow.
They were about to leave the place when the drunken guests became noisy, the fiddler struck up a lively song of the first figure of a Russian quadrille, the pianist began to thump in unison, a little drunken man in a white necktie and dress coat caught her up. Another man, stout and bearded, and also in a dress coat, seized Clara, and for a long time they whirled, danced, shouted and drank.
It was in consequence of this plan, that, after the comedy, they were entertained at the count's lodgings, where quadrille was proposed by the abbe, as the most innocent pastime, and the proposal was immediately embraced by all present, and by none with more alacrity than by our adventurer, who, without putting forth a moiety of his skill, went home with twenty louis clear gain.
"My love," said the frisky one, "who is the gentleman in the black mask who stares?" "I don't know," muttered the dear old man, in a cold sweat, "I don't know, but I wish I did." And the frisky one shrugged her shoulders and smiled at the mask. "What are they looking at?" whispered Yvonne, as she tripped along, holding very tightly to Gethryn's arm. "Only a quadrille `La Pataude' is dancing.
Marsa turned to the Prince with a look full of passionate admiration and devotion, which told him how thoroughly his love was returned. The quadrille had ended, and a waltz was beginning. The little Japanese, with his eternal smile, like the bronze figures of his country, was dancing with a pre-raphaelite English girl. "How well you dance," she said.
W't's use of be'ng shnobbish?" he urged, clinging hilariously to his partner, a pigeon-toed ballet girl. But Elliott only laughed and said: "No; waltzes are all I care for. No quadrille for me "
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