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Later a young brother and sister gave recitations, which every one

present had heardentertainirl performed a skirt dance in the center of the floor

The mother played her accoreedy admiration and nervous apprehension She need have

had no apprehension The child was mistress of the situation She had

been properly dressed for the occasion in black tulle and black silk

tights Her little neck and arms were bare, and her hair, artificially

crimped, stood out like fluffy black plurace, and her little black-shod toes twinkled as they shot

out and upith a rapidity and suddenness which were bewildering

But there was no reason why everyone should not dance Madaaily consented to play for the

others She played very well, keeping excellent waltz ti

an expression into the strains which was indeed inspiring She was

keeping up her music on account of the children, she said; because she

and her husband both considered it ait attractive

Almost every one danced but the twins, who could not be induced to

separate during the brief period when one or the other should be

whirling around the rooether, but they did not think of it