He became aware of her then, threw her a laugh, quickened to a mad tarantella that nearly whirled her off her feet, finally ended with a crashing chord, and whizzed round on the music-stool in time to catch her as she fell gasping against him.

He could only stop and listen to that maddening tarantella beating out in his fevered brain.

The Copa should be read in the arbor of an osteria at Sorrento or Capri to the rhythm of the tarantella where the modern offspring of Vergil's tavern-maid are still plying the arts of song and dance upon the passerby.

"It's 'bridge' for money or expensive prizes; and compared to the excitement it causes, the tarantella is a sitting-down dance.

He had given the book his every emotion, and discovered it gave nothing back; but had shaken, terrified, played furious tarantellas upon his feelingsand replenished naught.

Two bow-legged youngsters, dressed like ancient lazzarones in red caps, were accompanying with shouts the agitated dance of the tarantella.

Lucia d'Orlando Tagliaferri (W); 9Aug54; R134700. Tarantella internazionale.

Lucia d'Orlando Tagliaferri (W); 9Aug54; R134700. Tarantella internazionale.

Then Mr. Kantor broke into an actual tarantella of rage, his hands palms up and dancing.

As the song ended the children suddenly broke into the maddest of dances, a tarantella.

Here bold-eyed maidens are gathered, who poise copper vessels on their dark headsmaidens who can chat, and laugh, and romp, on holidays, and with flushed faces dance wild tarantellas (fingers for castanets), where the old tale of love is told in many a subtile step, and shuffle, rush, escape, and feint, ending in certain capture!

The sorrow died out of her eyes and was replaced by a fierce defiance; and her fingers broke into a tarantella of wild sounds.