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Maybe I was tired anyhow, it put me on the queer, and everything in the joint began to tango 'round me and Neva came home with me." Janet felt a surge of relief, in which were mingled anxiety and resentment: relief because she was convinced that Lise was telling the truth, anxiety because she feared for Lise's future, resentment because Ditmar had been mentioned.
At this point, our traveler rummages his Elks' button out of his trunk and gives it an affectionate polishing with a silk handkerchief. And oh, how he does long for a look at a home newspaper packed with wrecks and police news and municipal scandals and items about the persons one knows, and chatty mention concerning Congressmen and gunmen and tango teachers and other public characters.
The leaders chosen for this task were all members of the Imperial family a great-uncle, an uncle, a younger brother, and a first cousin of the Emperor and the fields of operation assigned to them were: first, to the west along the northern shore of the Inland Sea; secondly, to the northwest into Tamba, Tango, and Tajima; thirdly, to the north along the sea of Japan, and finally to the east along the route now known as the Tokaido.
Throughout her career she was always at her best when she took those first few moments about the stage and waited for her inspiration. Then she drifted nearer to Hughie and murmured, "The Tango." He changed his tempo immediately, and almost without a pause of transition she began that provocative measure the dance of desire.
Tiger, for letting go of my leg. It really was my leg, you know." Again he played and sang his little song: "Tango ti tar, tango ti tar, The tiger's bones are in my guitar. Tee hee, Tee hee." The tiger was angrier than ever. He waited and waited for the monkey to come out of the hole in the ground but the monkey did not come.
The Duchess glanced towards Kathryn, but fortunately the puzzled fret of the girl's forehead was even at the moment melting into a smile as a young man of much attraction descended upon her with smiles of his own and carried her into the Tango or Fox Trot or Antelope Galop, whichsoever it chanced to be. "If she were really aware of it that would be 'the worst' for other people for us probably.
Not even in Paris did the tango experts compare with the tango experts one sees in America. At this juncture I pause a moment, giving opportunity for some carping critic to rise and call my attention to the fact that perhaps the most distinguished of the early school of turkey-trotters bears a French name and came to us from Paris.
Cleggett, after the first dance, sought them out. "I hope," he said to the Rev. Mr. Calthrop, not unkindly, "that you don't disapprove of us." "It isn't that, Mr. Cleggett," said the ship's chaplain, with sorrow in his eloquent brown eyes, "it isn't that at all. In fact, I had a tango class in the basement of my church, every Thursday evening-when I had a church." "Then what is it?"
Tango, I think, would have been amazed to see how Mary V refrained from bullying her mount that night. There was no mane-pulling, no little, nipping pinches of the neck to imitate the bite of a fly, no scolding nothing that Tango had come to take for granted when Mary V bestrode him.
Follow the eastern group and they will take you to the Boche aircraft depôt at Lille. Thus were we reminded that tango teas and special constables belonged to the past. The covey landed at Saint Gregoire without mishap, except for a bent axle and a torn tyre. With these replaced, and the supplies of petrol and oil replenished, we flew south during the afternoon to the river-basin of war.
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