They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy

Author:Miklós Bánffy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited
Published: 2009-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Laszlo was a great success as dance leader for he was exceptionally good at the job. He could bring any party to life, invented new figures for the quadrille and even his innovations to the traditional movements of the cotillion, which many of the young people disliked, were so fresh and amusing that this old dance became the high spot of each evening. He introduced new csardases and the gypsies never played as well as they did for him. With deference and understanding he delighted all the dowagers, not only the prominent hostesses and great ladies whose balls were famous and with whom he spent every afternoon discussing the details of the evening’s entertainment, but also those forlorn mothers who wearily attended every dance in their efforts to marry off their not very attractive and often by no means well-dowered daughters. For these ladies, who were used to spending entire nights by the buffet in sad resignation, or gently snoring in a quiet alcove, he had a special word of gentle encouragement which would send them back to the ballroom with head held high and a new lightness in their step. He was deservedly popular.

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