Sketches by Boz, Vol. 2
Charles Dickens
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 17, 2018)
Excerpt from Sketches by Boz, Vol. 2As to the shawl-dance, it was the most exciting thing that ever was beheld; there was 'such a whisking, and rustling, and fanning, and getting ladies into a tangle with artificial ďŹowers, and then disentangling them again! And as to Mr. Augustus cooper's share in the quadrille, he got through it admirably. He was missing from his partner, now and then, certainly, and discovered on such occasions to be either dancing with laudable perseverance in another set, or sliding about in perspective, without any definite object; but generally speaking, they man aged to shove him through the figure, until he.turned up in the right place. Be this as it may, when he had finished, a great many ladies and gentlemen came up and complimented him very much, and said they had never seen a beginner do anything like it before; and Mr. Augustus Cooper was perfectly satisfied with him self, and everybody else into the bargain; and stood considerable quantities of spirits-and-water, negus, and compounds, for the use and behoof of two or three dozen very particular friends, selected from the select circle of five-and-seventy pupils.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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