They swam, and boated and fished, and, above all, flirted, for there were always plenty of men; and in the evenings they danced in the ballroom of the casino, built on the edge of the water.

This seemed to make the library as strange as the rest of the house, and he passed on to the ballroom at the back.

They paused at last, breathless, and walked out of the most wonderful ballroom in London into the gardens, aglow with fairy lanterns whose brilliance was already fading before the rising moon.

To my intense annoyance and dismay I saw him come into the ballroom with all the hateful assurance that was so familiar to me.

She entered the ballroom behind Mrs. Ingleton, and at once Preston descended upon her again.

But he is quite a young gentleman, and has doubtless had more experience in ballrooms than in bombarded cities.

"I suppose I could compress myself back into being satisfied with this sort of people and things," she thought, as she looked round the ballroom from which pose and self-consciousness and rigid conventionality had banished spontaneous gayety.

Undoubtedly, after long training, fingers will play scales, and flying feet whirl their owner about a ballroom without making him conscious of every muscular extension and contraction, but this facility comes only to those who, in the beginning, fix an undivided mind upon what they are doing, and who never fall into willful negligence.