The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-13

"She wore a white dress with a
pink belt, white kid gloves, which al
most reached her slim, sharp elbows,
and white satin slippers. The repul
sive engineer Anisimov took away
from me the mazurka-I can not for
give him that to this day-he invited
her as soon as she arrived, while l
was at the hairdressers, and stepped
in to get my gloves, and was late. I
danced the mazurka, not with her, but
with little German girl whom I had
courted little before, but 1 am afraid
that l was very impolite to her that
evening. l did not talk to her, l did
not look at her; I saw only the tall,
stately figure in the white dress with
the pink belt and her beaming, flush
ed, dimpled face, and her gentle,
sweet eyes I was not the only one
everybody looked at her and ad-
mired her Men admired her and wo-
men also admired her, notwithstand-
ing that she eclipsed them all. 1t Yves
impossible not to admire her
According to the rule, so to say,
did not dance the mazurka with her,
but in reality l danced almost all the
time with her. Without being con-
fused she would walk across the en-
tire hall straight to me, and | would
jump up, without waiting for an in
vitation, and she would thank me with
a smile for my alertness. When we
were led to her and she did not guess
shoulders, extending her hand to some
one else, and she would smile to me
as a sign of regret and consolation.
when the figures of the mazurka
turned into a waltz, I waltzed with
her a long time, and she, breathing
rapidly, smiling, kept saying to me
Encore and I waltzed again and
again, not feeling my body at all"
"How is it possible that you did
not feel your body, since she held you
around the waist? I suppose you felt
not only your body, but also hers"
said one of the guests
Ivan Vasilyevich suddenly Redeemed
and almost shouted angrily:
eyes, that's what you are, you
young people of today You don't see
anything except the body, But it was
different in our days. The more deep
" I was in love the more incorporeal
she was to me. Nowadays you see
the feet of the women you are in love
with; but to me, as Alphonse Karr
said-he was a good writer-the sub
iect of my love always had on bronze
clothes. Instead of unbaring, we tried
TO cover nakedness, like the good son
of Noah. But, then, you can not un-
derstand it," ''"
Don't pay any attention to him
What happened later?" said one of
us.
Eyes, thus danced mostly with her
and did not notice how the time was
, passing. The musicians-you know,
as it happens toward the end of the
ball-caught up the same air of the
mazurka with a certain despair OF
fatigue; the fathers and mothers rose
in the drawing room from the caro-
tables, waiting for supper; the lack
evs came running in more frequently
carrying something. 1t was past TWO
O'Clock. 1t was necessary for me to
avail myself of the last moments.
selected her again, and for the hun
dredth time we walked across the
ballroom.
"!.The quadrille, then, is mine after
supper I said to her, leading her TO
! her seat.
"'Of course, if they don't take me
away she answered, smiling,
"T will not permit it, I'said.
"Iet me have my fam she said
! It's a pity to give it back to you.
said, handing her the cheap little
fan.
"'Take this, then, that you may not
feel sorry she said, tearing leaIhei
from the fan and handing it to me.
81 took the feather, and / was able
to express all my delight and gratitude
only in a glance. was not only
cheerful and contented-I was happy
blissful; was kind, was not myself
but some unearthly being, knowing NJ
evil, and capable of nothing but good
hid the feather away in my glove
and there, unable to go away from her
"Look, papa is asking me for
dance. she said to me, pointing a
the tall, stately figure of her father
the Colonel with silver epaulets' wh'
stood in the doorway with othe
ladies'.
'varenka, come over here w
p heard the loud voice of the hcstes
with the diamond pendant and tn
Elizabethean shoulders.
| "Varenka walked over to the doc
and | followed her.
p "My dear, persuade your father I
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