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"Not in the least," she said. "It's a musical term. It applies very well to people." They took up the dance again and waltzed breathlessly till the close. Kate was tired; the exertion had been a little more than she had bargained for. She sat very still on the veranda under the white glare of an electric ball, and let Roeder do the talking.
The Majors smiled with a sober joy, and the subalterns waltzed in pairs down the Mess-room after dinner and nearly shot themselves at revolver practice. But there was consternation in the hearts of Jakin and Lew. What was to be done with the drums? Would the Band go to the Front? How many of the drums would accompany the Regiment? They took council together, sitting in a tree and smoking.
The rapid waltz allowed no pause for conversation; but after the dance Vivian seated himself at her side, with the determination of not quickly deserting it The lady did not even allow him the satisfaction of commencing the conversation; for no sooner was she seated than she begged to know who the person was with whom she had previously waltzed.
The "colonel," as if fatigued, leaned against the pillar, and slightly removing his mask, I saw, with sudden rejoicing, the features of that gallant young friend, whom I had almost despaired of ever seeing again. "Wait in this spot until I return," was all that I heard, before he and the sylph had waltzed away far down the hall.
Never had they promenaded so proudly to martial music or waltzed so perspiringly with the fashion-plate officers whom they adored. The children were paragons of diligence and promise. In their school books and college text books everything German was lauded in the superlative; everything foreign was decried as inferior, undesirable.
Brock, while fond of women's society, preferred brain to beauty. Had his old Guernsey friends been present on these occasions they would not have recognized in the soldier, resplendent in a general's uniform, now dancing a mazurka, the handsome stripling who only a few years since had waltzed his way into the hearts of all the women of St. Peter's Port.
The girls waltzed on the bare floor, grouped themselves in mock-dramatic postures, then, overcome by the strange magnetism of the singer, fell into motionless attitudes, listening intently. How well I remember that picture, although I have almost forgotten the names of the girls!
Clothes is well enough in school, and in towns, and at balls, too, but there ain't no sense in them when there ain't no civilization nor other kinds of bothers and fussiness around. "Lions a-comin'! lions! Quick, Mars Tom! Jump for yo' life, Huck!" Oh, and didn't we! We never stopped for clothes, but waltzed up the ladder just so.
You surely must have remarked that lovely girl I waltzed with at Power's ball on Tuesday last." "Lovely girl! Why, in all seriousness, you don't mean the small woman with the tow wig?" "No, I do not mean any such thing but a beautiful creature, with the brightest locks in Christendom the very light-brown waving ringlets, Dominicheno loved to paint, and a foot did you see her foot?"
The next item in the day's programme occurred a few minutes later when the morning papers arrived. Mrs. Vanderley opened hers and gave a scream. "The poor, dear Prince!" she said. "What a shocking thing!" said old Marshall. "I knew him in Vienna," said Mrs. Vanderley. "He waltzed divinely." Then I got at mine and saw what they were talking about. The paper was full of it.
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