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They would not dance the quadrille nor any other stately measure, but would be free to romp and play such jokes as might occur to them. When he heard these plans Lafayette shook his head doubtfully. "What will the lords in waiting say to this?" he asked, "and your Majesty's own ladies of the court?" The Queen laughed and shrugged her pretty shoulders. "Who cares?" she said.
But I grieve to say that I soon perceived the infection had taken hold, and that my neighbors, after condemning, were beginning to follow their example. I overheard my landlady importuning her husband to let their daughters have one quarter at French and music, and that they might take a few lessons in quadrille.
'You are one of the woman's dupes. I thought you had brains. How can you be the donkey not to see that my brother Rowsley, Lord Ormont, would never let a woman, lawfully bearing his name, go running the quadrille over London in couples with a Lady Staines and a Mrs. Lawrence Finchley, Lord Adderwood, and that man Morsfield, who boasts of your Lady Ormont, and does it unwhipped tell me why?
Rose danced well enough for a queen; and she yielded herself up entirely to the enchantment of such a happy day. The prince, ever eager to be near her, was figuring away in a quadrille, when twelve o'clock struck: great, then, was his astonishment, while gazing passionately on his partner, he beheld a negress!
The party dispersed, and the Duke, after joining a quadrille with Lady Caroline, wandered away to make himself generally popular. As he was moving along, he turned his head; he started. 'Ah! exclaimed his Grace. The cause of this sudden and ungovernable exclamation can be no other than a woman. You are right.
Never forget a ball-room engagement. To do so is to commit an unpardonable offence against good breeding. It is not necessary that a lady or gentleman should be acquainted with the steps, in order to walk gracefully and easily through a quadrille. An easy carriage and a knowledge of the figure is all that is requisite.
The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or "stitch" as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed. They went to breakfast, and came again, and the work proceeded as before.
Meantime in the English hotels home-played farces, tableaux-vivants, and even balls enliven the evenings; a charity bazaar sheds genial consternation; Christmas and New Year are solemnised with Pantagruelian dinners, and from time to time the young folks carol and revolve untunefully enough through the figures of a singing quadrille.
Phil, if you have finished your tea " and Joe laughed, inwardly knowing some other business had been concluded as well. They had a delightful quadrille. Then Miss Butler sang a fascinating song "The Mocking-Bird." Two of the gentlemen sang several of the popular airs of the day, and the party broke up.
The music must be first a march, then a quadrille, a polka, a waltz, a galop, and so on, with two or three round dances to each quadrille, until fourteen dances are completed, when another march announces supper. Seven to ten dances may follow supper.
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