Gallantry was at last beat by nature, his overtasked muscles would do no more for him, and he was fain to stop, dropping his partner into a chair, and throwing himself in a state of utter exhaustion against the wall.
Katie was hardly out of breath as she received the congratulations of her friends; but at the moment she could not understand why they were quizzing her.

In after times, however, she was often reproached with having danced a Frenchman to death in the evening, in revenge for his having bored her in the morning.

It was observed that M.Delabarbe de l'Empereur danced no more that evening.

Indeed, he very soon left the house.
Katie had not been able to see Miss Golightly's performance, but it had been well worth seeing.

She was certainly no ordinary performer, and if she did not quite come up to the remarkable movements which one sees on the stage under the name of dancing, the fault was neither in her will nor her ability, but only in her education.