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The Countess' hand was cold like ice. She drew it away and danced on; then she whispered back: "The Duke! Where is he to-night? He is not here! Why is the mazurka so early, tell me." They interchanged again. "Hush," said the Prince, "You noticed? Don't speak. He has gone to the Tsar. What is it? Are you ill?" "He has gone?" "Dance, Countess, dance. Don't stop; are you mad? Come nearer. Hush!
In B major, it is sufficiently various in figuration and rhythmical life to single it from its fellows. The next, in F minor, has a more elegiac ring. Brief and not difficult of matter or manner is this dance. The third, of winning beauty, is in C sharp minor surely a pendant to the C sharp minor Valse. I defy anyone to withstand the pleading, eloquent voice of this Mazurka.
Boom! boom! tra-ra-ra! thundered the drums from the band.... I must own such a conversation at a ball struck me as eccentric in the extreme; the ideas involuntarily kindled within me were of a nature anything but religious. I took advantage of my partner's being invited to one of the figures of the mazurka to avoid renewing our quasi-theological discussion.
He taught certain uncouth lads, when they were of an age to enter society, the intricacies of contra dances, or the steps of the schottische and mazurka, and he was a marked figure in all social assemblies, though conspicuously absent from town-meetings and the purely masculine gatherings at the store or tavern or bridge.
For, stationary though he was, he was really giving himself the benefit of a final rehearsal, and mentally performing steps of intricate and marvelous variety. "Stop moving your feet!" whispered Annette. "You'll step on my dress." "Is it the mazurka that's got the hiccoughs in the middle?" asked Sandy, anxiously. Mr. Meech paused and looked at them over his spectacles in plaintive reproach.
I went out alone, and, meeting Princess Mary I asked her to keep the mazurka for me. She seemed surprised and delighted. "I thought that you would only dance from necessity as on the last occasion," she said, with a very charming smile... She does not seem to notice Grushnitski's absence at all. "You will be agreeably surprised to-morrow," I said to her. "At what?"
"Now it's your turn again," said the dwarf. But Amelia cunningly replied "I'm afraid I must go on with my work." "Pshaw!" said the little tinker. "Give me your work. I can do more in a minute than you in a month, and better to boot. Now dance again." "Do you know this?" said Amelia, and she danced a few paces of a polka mazurka. "Admirable!" cried the little man.
The principal measures are those of Ugadayn and Batar; these again are divided and subdivided; I fancy that the description of Dileho, Jibwhayn, and Hobala would be as entertaining and instructive to you, dear L., as Polka, Gavotte, and Mazurka would be to a Somali. On Friday our Sunday a drunken crier goes about the town, threatening the bastinado to all who neglect their five prayers.
Some of them had rings and watches, and Cerberus had ready cash what sort of dearth was that? The men sat under the painted ceiling and the gilded mirrors, over a glass of beer, leaving the girls to freeze even Elvira had to sit still. "Mazurka!" bellowed Cerberus, going threateningly from table to table. They slunk into the hall like beaten curs, dejectedly danced once round the floor, and paid.
In the middle of the mazurka, repeating a complicated figure, newly invented by Korsunsky, Anna came forward into the center of the circle, chose two gentlemen, and summoned a lady and Kitty. Kitty gazed at her in dismay as she went up. Anna looked at her with drooping eyelids, and smiled, pressing her hand.
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