Цитата: Замечательный новый танец
Dearest MAMA,— . . . On Wednesday, being the wedding-day, we conclude there will be a great dinner, and something in the evening, but have not heard for certain. […] Last night we had very good fun, dancing some wonderful new dances, going all about the house, promenading into dark rooms and odd corners of passages, where one was lucky if one did not brat one’s shins over trunks, chairs, or tables. I had a fall in the course of the dance, but fell very properly, and was picked up again, unhurt, in an instant. C. Lyttelton fell on the same spot (a particularly slippery one, by the by) a few evenings ago, so I was not singular in my misfortunes. There was a funny figure when a lady and gentleman ran down the ladies’side holding a pocket-handkerchief by two corners, and the ladies were all obliged to duck under it, and afterwards up the gentlemen’s side, these being obliged to jump over it, and some of the leaps were strange enough. Altogether, I don’t think we looked very dignified, any of us, if you don’t think it treason to say so. . . .
Автор цитаты: Hon. Eleanor Stanley
Источник: Twenty years at court, from the correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, maid of honour to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862, стр: 149-150
Цитата относится к: 1847 г.
Дата первой найденной публикации: 1916 г.
Подобрал цитату: Алина Логвиненко (Файзганова)