After dinner, all the company, great and small, gentle and simple, abandoned themselves to the dance: not the modern quadrille, with its graceful gravity, but the merry, social, old country-dance; the true dance, as the Squire says, for a wedding occasion, as it sets all the world jigging in couples, hand in hand, and makes every eye and every heart dance merrily to the music.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The quadrille continues, with occasional attempts on the part of the brilliant couple to make conversation.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
A quadrille is formed.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith