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Mr Nisbet, the established minister, nor the Rev. Mr Spooner, the episcopal minister, were in town. Before breakfast, we went and saw the town-hall, where is a good dancing-room, and other rooms for tea-drinking. The appearance of the town from it is very well; but many of the houses are built with their ends to the street, which looks awkward.
He would have liked to propitiate her, but he had no notion what he should do with the propitiation, if it were reached. He wanted her money, but he was beginning to feel with restlessness that he could not pay the cost. The poet in him was still strong, crossed though it were by the adventurer. He took her back to the dancing-room. Mary walked beside him with a dull, fierce sense of wrong.
Then they returned to the dancing-room; the fiddles, flutes, and farogatos struck up, and the guests danced over the very spot where Zurdoki's blood had flowed, just as if absolutely nothing had occurred. And surely you cannot express your contempt for a man more emphatically than by dancing over the spot where his blood has been, only an hour after his death!
But she recovered herself quickly and smiled; for a voice within her said: "Don't let your pleasure be spoiled by a single word. If you begin anything new, you are sure to step on thorns at first." Rose took Barefoot aside and said: "You may go for the present to the dancing-room, or wherever you like, if you have any acquaintances in the place.
Just take me with you some of the way. I shall scream if I go back into that dancing-room again." Sir Timothy glanced at the clock. "If there is any amusement to you in a rather dull drive eastwards " She was on her feet with the soft, graceful speed which had made her so much admired before her present listlessness had set in. "I'll get my cloak," she said.
Before they had looked through more than half of the album, which was a very large one, he proposed to return to the dancing-room, and Elsie reluctantly left the book on the library table, hoping to snatch another half-hour to finish it. Miss Rennie's verses were decidedly inferior to her own; even her recent humiliation could not prevent her from seeing this, and she felt a good deal inspirited.
But perhaps by this time you have floated with the tide into the doorway, and received from your hostess the cordial shake of the hand or formal bow which makes you free of the place. So, with patience and perseverance you work your way at last into the dancing-room, and you now see what people come here for dancing, of course.
With a sign she bade them be seated, and walking quickly toward the dancing-room, lifted the red and white cotton curtain which hung over the entrance. There, in a space of a hundred square yards or so, about a hundred and fifty people were sitting or standing.
The present drawing-room, nucleus of a new wing, would be a dancing-room, with parquet flooring; when not used for tangos and the fashionable negroid dances, it would be called the morning-room; beyond that there would be a billiard-room. Above this first floor there could easily be built a series of guest chambers. As for Marmaduke's library, or study, or den, any old room would do.
Stephen turned away, and walked backward and forward at the other end of the room. There was the dire necessity of going back into the dancing-room again, and he was beginning to be conscious of that. They had been absent so short a time, that when he went in again the waltz was not ended. Maggie, too, was not long before she re-entered.
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