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Updated: May 20, 2025
I have half a mind not to tell you what I heard said of you, but I believe you may have it second-hand. Fred Vincent was as grum as a preacher all the evening, and when I asked him what on earth made him so surly and owlish, he said, 'It was too provoking you would not come, for no one else could dance the schottisch to his liking. Now there was a sweet specimen of manners for you!
A motley crew, however, frequently avail themselves of the masquerade privilege to steal in uninvited. Cecilia illustrates these fantastic ramifications of the young idea for the benefit of friends in the interior. She jots down some of these questions and their answers in her note-book: "How does a polka differ from a schottisch?" "A schottisch is a lazy polka.
A polka is the worst thing in the world: the next worst is a schottisch. A schottisch is so lazy, so slow, that a fire would hardly kindle with it." "In preparing to play a piece in public should one practise it up to the last moment?" "Try it and see: you will soon decide in the negative. Lay it aside some time before if you would avoid nervousness."
Milagros did not heed his words; she danced with her skirt gathered in one hand, answering him in peevish monosyllables. The schottisch over, Leandro invited the family to refreshments. To the right of the entrance there were two decorated staircases, which led to another lot about six or seven metres above the grounds where the dance was being held.
Then came a waltz, then a schottisch, then another waltz, and finally a quadrille, set to unmitigated English tunes. They danced exceedingly well, and behaved as though they had been used to European ball-rooms all their lives.
He was not a bad dancer, when his sluggish blood once got into circulation; and he was considerably more limber at the end of Money Musk, considerably less like a wooden image, than at the beginning of it. In the interval between this astounding exhibition and the Rochester Schottisch which followed it, Henry Lord went up to Mrs.
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