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Franks, you remember the ballet divertissement they improvised at the Bodley race-ball, when the magnificent footman fired a curtain and caught up Lady Racial, and carried her 'Heaven knows where! cried Sir Franks. 'I remember it perfectly. It was said that the magnificent footman did it on purpose to have that pleasure. 'Ay, of course, Hamilton took him up.
"He is a mechanic; he assists in making the articles he sells; the others call themselves merchants." The dancing was not quite like, yet not very unlike, what we see at an assize or race-ball in a country town. They call their dances cotillions instead of quadrilles, and the figures are called from the orchestra in English, which has very ludicrous effect on European ears.
"Egad," thought Scully, "I recollect when she would dance down a matter of five-and-forty couple, and jingle away at the 'Battle of Prague' all day." She continued: "Don't you recollect, I do, with oh, what regret! that day at Oldborough race-ball, when I behaved with such sad rudeness to you? You will scarcely believe me, and yet I assure you 'tis the fact, the music had made me almost mad.
'Bodley race-ball! he cried; and looking at Lady Jocelyn: 'Was your ladyship there, then? Why ha! ha! why, you have seen the Great Mel, then! That tremendous footman was old Mel himself! Lady Jocelyn struck both her hands on the table, and rested her large grey eyes, full of humorous surprise, on Mr. George. There was a pause, and then the ladies and gentlemen laughed. 'Yes, Mr.
Weeks had passed away since the return of O'Connor, and scarce a day had elapsed without my seeing him, when the neighbourhood was thrown into an unusual state of excitement by the announcement of a race-ball to be celebrated at the assembly-room of the town of T , distant scarcely two miles from Castle Connor.
Left to his own cogitations, Buckhurst fell into a reverie upon the charms of Caroline Percy, and upon the probable pleasure of dancing with her at the race-ball; after this, he recurred to the bitter recollection, that he must decide about his debts, and the church. A bright idea came into his mind, that he might have recourse to Mr.
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