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CHAPTER VII. FIRST BLOOD. THE influential politicians had quite a gay time of it with us. They had, of course, to show themselves at meetings and, I suppose, to prepare their speeches in advance, and the work of canvassing was carried on briskly ; so that not much leisure was left to them for disporting themselves upon the ice. But there were dinner-parties for them every evening, and as these were attended by a certain number of young people, they were followed by dancing, to the strains of sundry musicians whose services had been secured from the neighboring town. Hurstbourne danced a great deal with Nora. Whether he exhorted her to reserve her saltatory skill for provincial festivities, instead of exhib- iting it in the limited space afforded by London ball- rooms, I do not know; but I imagine that he must have given her the benefit of some quasi-fraternal ad- vice; for she spontaneously informed me, one day, that she had no ambition to make the acquaintance of sreat ladies. “ Lady Charles,” she remarked, “couldn’t be accused by anybody of being a great lady. She is a dear old woman, and she means to be very kind, and she natu- EoOmIichboo (@) cS (E(@)