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.

They were playing a polka for the benefit of some twelve or fifteen couples, who were dancing with all their might in the space before the orchestra.

"We polkaed into the open.

Well, men so useless as he should be thrown as quickly as possible into the hole, and the polka of deliverance be danced over them.

Then he had held Ethelyn's white cloak upon his arm, and stood patiently against the wall, while up at the United States she danced set after setfirst, the Lancers, with young Lieutenant Gray, then a polka with John Tophevie, and lastly, a waltz with Frank Van Buren, who whirled his fair partner about the room with a velocity which made Richard dizzy and awoke sundry thoughts not wholly complimentary to that doubtful dance, the waltz.