The hall was named Mazurka hall, and all of the swell entertainments of the early '50s took place in this old building.

It is danced with a light, springing step, and has been compared with the mazurka by Liszt.

Sivert could dance, and Leopoldine too; a kind of dancing peculiar to the spot, growth of the new-cleared soil; a dance with energy and swing: schottische, mazurka, waltz and polka in one.

It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley."

One of these poor little mortals, equipped as an officer of hussars, danced a mazurka with great grace and activity, and selected for his partner the Gouvernante, a fine, fat bouncing woman of twenty-five.

Any person who made the avowal of not being able to sing a part at sight was looked upon as unacquainted with the usages of good societylike a gentleman who now-a-days says he cannot play a game at whist, or a lady that she cannot join in a quadrille or a mazurka.

Although the cauldron of Hecate and her priestesses has vanished from the heath at Forres, it bubbles in nightly incantations among the elm-trees of Grosvenor Square; and Hopper and Hellway, Puckle and Straddling, now croak forth their chorus of rejoicing where golden lamps swing blazing over the écarté tables, and the soft strains of the Mazurka enervate the atmosphere of the gorgeous temples of May Fair.

Mazurka in C. R123177.

Mazurka in C, piano.

Mazurka in C. R123177.

Mazurka in C. R123177.

Mazurka in C, piano.

Mazurka in C. R123177.

But, strange to say, that very evening at the ball, Tomsky, being piqued with the young Princess Pauline N, who, contrary to her usual custom, did not flirt with him, wished to revenge himself by assuming an air of indifference: he therefore engaged Lizaveta Ivanovna, and danced an endless mazurka with her.

She longed to renew the interrupted conversation, but the mazurka came to an end, and shortly afterwards the old Countess took her departure.

All I wanted was an opportunity to watch, unobserved, the brilliant picture of colour and motion, and to feel the thrill of the music as the band swept, with wonderful dash, swing, and precision, through the measures of a spirited Polish mazurka.

MAZURKA, a lively Polish dance, danced by four or eight couples, and much practised in the N. of Germany as well as in Poland.

The Mazurka Quadrille XII.

The Polka Mazurka XIII.

Commence with Polka Mazurka step, with left foot to the left, and turn half round.

Polka Mazurka, with right foot to the right, and turn half round.

A serious phlegmatic doctor fell in love with a girl who danced very well, and, to please her, he started to learn a mazurka.