Even old Adam Vedder who had come on his own invitation-but welcome all the same-went through the Orkney quickstep with the two prettiest girls present, Thora Ragnor and Maren Torrie.
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"That is the hygienic elbow-exercise, and that the Orne quickstep, a mixture of the grasshopper's skip and the water-bug's slide," added Julia, humming a tune in time to the stamp of the other's foot.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
Durward bit his lip, while Mabel, in perfect good humor, dashed off into a spirited quickstep, receiving but little attention from Mr. Graham, who seemed in a strange mood to-day, scribbling upon a piece of white paper which lay upon the piano, and of which Durward managed to get possession, finding thereon the name, "Helena Nichols," to which was added that of "Rivers," the Nichols being crossed out.
"'Lena Rivers"
Mary J. Holmes