A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius And Back Touching At the Cape of Good Hope
A Transport Voyage to the Mauritius And Back Touching At the Cape of Good Hope
Caroline Kerrison
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It. Began with a general setting of all to all, followed by a maze of right and left ; and finally, as each one caught his partner (who, by the way, was not changed through the evening), finished in a whirl of poussette, continued as long ns exhausted nature could conveniently bear it : then a little rest, refreshment, and at it again. L-3 226 THE BALL. CHAP VI. The skipper's partner required great care, and was the cause of much anxiety to that earnest prac- tical man. In the intervals of danc...ing he placed her in a corner, sitting in front, so as to make hope- less any attempt at a bolt. He then fed her with punch and biscuit, looking sternly at her the while, and repressing any errant disposition on her part by frequently repeating, " Not if I know it, my lady I " But to think of how the young ladies in the short red serge bounded with the agility of spring- boks, though in the figure of griesboks how, in the whirl of the poussette, their red drapery spread after them, like the tail of a comet and how, notwith- standing the difficulties of language, we all arrived at the clearest understanding is, even at this dis- tance of time, scarcely to be thought of without emotion.
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