[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER XXVI 14/29
'Oh, now,' said she to herself, 'if he should forget me and begin dancing with Miss Neverbend!' But then she remembered how he had jumped into the water, and determined that, even with such provocation as that, she must not be angry with him. But there was no danger of Charley's forgetting.
'Come,' said he, 'we must not lose any more time, if we mean to dance the first set.
Alaric will be our _vis-a-vis_--he is going to dance with Miss Neverbend,' and so they stood up.
Katie tightened her gloves, gave her dress a little shake, looked at her shoes, and then the work of the evening began. 'I shouldn't have liked to have sat down for the first dance,' she said confidentially to Charley,' because it's my first ball.' 'Sit down! I don't suppose you'll be let to sit down the whole evening.
You'll be crying out for mercy about three or four o'clock in the morning.' 'It's you to go on now,' said Katie, whose eyes were intent on the figure, and who would not have gone wrong herself, or allowed her partner to do so, on any consideration.
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