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to add other dangers to those so irresistible. During le Pantalon he arranged his neckcloth; l'Eté, drew his fingers through his curls; la Poule, he asked if she had been that morning in the Park; during la Pastorelle prepared for his pas seul; and during la Finale, recovered the trouble of dancing, gave his arm, and, as the carriage was announced, handed her into it. "A ball is not always the comble de bonheur" to papas, says the author of the Disowned; "nor to their daughters either," could have added Emily Arundel.
