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"Thanks very much! You may!" laughed Mavis. "I'm always glad when I get my own way!" chuckled Bevis, as they started a valse. Three of the dances which Bevis had appropriated on Mavis's programme came in succession, and as their steps went well together they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. At the close of the third they were walking into the hall to get lemonade when Mrs.
"My dear Sylla," exclaimed Lady Mary, as that young lady, leaning upon Bloxam's arm, stopped near her in one of the pauses of the valse, "I have not had an opportunity of congratulating you upon your very spirited pantomime carried, my dear, a little too far in that last charade." "Oh, I hope you don't really think so, Lady Mary," cried Sylla; "but you cannot half act a thing.
Enough has been told to show the graceful, coquettish character of the dance, which adapts itself admirably to the Italian nature, and is as much beloved by them as the Valse by the Germans or the Cachucha by the dark-eyed maidens of Spain. We should rejoice to see this charming stranger naturalised in English ball-rooms.
Whatever we may be inclined to believe with regard to this disputed question, there can be no doubt of the wide-spread popularity which for many years was enjoyed by the Polka. When first introduced, in 1843, it was received with enthusiasm by every capital in Europe; and it effected a complete revolution in the style of dancing which had prevailed up to that period. A brisk, lively character was imparted even to the steady-going quadrille; the old Valse
"Damned idiots, both of us!" he reflected savagely. "A couple of dogs whose bones have been confiscated, and we haven't even the pluck to snarl." The opening valse struck up as he reached the cardroom.
And in a dim, noisy, heated whirl the whole village went round and round and round under the low ceiling in the valse, young and old, rich and poor, high and low, the sound of their laughter and the scraping of their feet cut now and again by an agonized squeak from Zeron's fiddle.
The D flat section has a tang of the later Chopin. There is bustle, even chatter, in this valse, which in form and content is inferior to op. 34, No. I, A flat. The three valses of this set were published December, 1838. There are many editorial differences in the A flat Valse, owing to the careless way it was copied and pirated. Klindworth and Kullak are the safest for dynamic markings.
Never mind, ma belle you shall have your valse, and Corydon may be as cross as he pleases!" "Don't flatter yourself that she will displease Corydon to dance with your lordship!" I said, laughingly. "Pshaw! she would displease fifty Corydons if I chose to make her do so," said Dalrymple, with a smile of conscious power. "True; but not on her wedding-day."
She was so surprised that this "grave and reverend signor," as she called him, should be able to valse! "So do I," said Francis Markrute "under certain circumstances. This is one of them." And then he suddenly held her rather tight, and laughed. "Think of it all!" he went on.
Lady Ethelrida asked, as she stopped, with the gallant old Crow, flushed and smiling by the daïs, where the financier and Lady Anningford sat. "If you ever do, I, as the Lady of the Castle, ask you to 'tread a measure' with me!" "No one could resist such, an invitation," he answered, and put his arm around her for a valse. "I do love dancing," she said, as they went along very well.
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