So he inquired who she was, and got introduced, and asked her for the two next.

Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the _Boulanger_--" "If he had had any compassion for _me_," cried her husband impatiently, "he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners.

O that he had sprained his ankle in the first dance!" "Oh! my dear, I am quite delighted with him.

He is so excessively handsome! And his sisters are charming women.

I never in my life saw anything more elegant than their dresses.