"If Jonathan and Zenobia were only here!" she could not but say to herself, and her happiness was not quite complete without them.
Toward evening Aaron himself began to feel uneasy at their non-appearance.

He had nearly exhausted his ingenuity in quieting Blanka's anxiety.

Finally he played his last card.
"Now, my angel," said he, "you remember I promised you I would dance the Szekler dance at your wedding.

Have the goodness to pay attention, and you will see something that is not to be seen every day." The Szekler dance resembles no other terpsichorean exercise, nor is it by any means easy of execution.

It calls for sinews of steel and great suppleness of limb.