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Updated: May 16, 2025
Gentleman takes his partner as for the Valse
"A definite scheme of ill-doing," Aynesworth ventured to suggest, "would be more satisfactory?" "Exactly," he admitted. He called for the bill, and his eyes wandered once more around the room as the waiter counted out the change. The band were playing the "Valse Amoureuse"; the air was grown heavy with the odor of tobacco and the mingled perfumes of flowers and scents.
It is especially adapted to sociable gatherings, where most of the guests are friends or acquaintances. This pretty though now somewhat old-fashioned dance was, before the introduction of the Deux Temps and Polka, a principal feature in every ball-room. It is danced with the step and music of the Old Valse
Peter had told the truth. But, after the greetings were over, Dorothy helped Peter greatly. She said to him, "Give me your arm, Peter. There is a girl here whom I want you to meet." "Peter's going to dance this valse with me," said Leonore. And Peter had two minutes of bliss, amateur though he was. Then Leonore said cruelly, "That's enough; you do it very badly!"
J'y vis madame de Valse, très-belle femme, du pays de Bohème, laquelle me fit beaucoup d'accueil. Elle me donna un roussin d'un excellent trot, un diamant pour mettre sur mes cheveux,
Peter smiled at so good an American using so European a word, but said seriously, "No. I've been too busy." "That's a shame," said Leonore, "because there are to be two dances this week, and mamma has written to get you cards." "Is it very hard?" asked Peter. "No," said Leonore. "It's as easy as breathing, and much nicer." "Couldn't you teach me that, also?" "Easily. Mamma, will you play a valse?
Whoever catches the returning ball, has the right to throw next; and the same ceremony is repeated until all have chosen their partners, with whom they valse round the room, returning to places as usual. Sometimes a handkerchief is substituted for the ball; but the latter is better, being more easily thrown and caught. Six or eight chairs are placed in a circle, the backs turned inwards.
One question would keep recurring to my mind. It has been said that if you stop your ears in a ball-room, and then look at the people reputed sane skipping about in the new valse or the last galop, you will imagine they must be all lunatics.
She hummed a valse 'a deux temps, and went dancing out with such a whirl that her petticoats, which were ample, and not, as now, like a sack tied at the knees, made quite a cool air in the room. She had not been gone long when Miss Gale came down, full of her patient. She wanted to get her out of bed during the daytime, but said she was not strong enough to sit up.
The orchestra played the Beethoven overture correctly, and the valse deliciously. During the Pilgrimage of Tannhaeuser, the uncorking of bottles was heard. A big man sitting at the table next to Christophe beat time to the Merry Wives by imitating Falstaff.
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