Excerpt: ...got my sight back, I looked apprehensively at Bee, to see if I had gone beyond the limit which her own perfectly ladylike manner always sets for me; but to my surprise her foot was tapping the floor, and there was a gleam in her eyes which told the mischievous Jimmie that the music was getting into Bee's blood. Jimmie wrenched my little finger under the table and whispered: "For two cents, Bee would do the skirt dance!" "Ask her," I whispered back. He jogged her elbow and said: "Give 'um the skirt dance, Bee. ...
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Excerpt: ...got my sight back, I looked apprehensively at Bee, to see if I had gone beyond the limit which her own perfectly ladylike manner always sets for me; but to my surprise her foot was tapping the floor, and there was a gleam in her eyes which told the mischievous Jimmie that the music was getting into Bee's blood. Jimmie wrenched my little finger under the table and whispered: "For two cents, Bee would do the skirt dance!" "Ask her," I whispered back. He jogged her elbow and said: "Give 'um the skirt dance, Bee. You could knock 'um all silly with the way you dance." Bee needed no urging. It was quite evident she had made up her mind to do it before we asked. She arose with a look of determination in her eyes, which would have carried her through a murder. When Bee makes up her mind to do a thing, she'll put it through, good or bad, determined and remorseless, from giving a dinner to the poor to robbing a grave, and nobody can stop her, or laugh her out of it any more than you can persuade her to do it, if she doesn't want to. Nobody is responsible for Bee's acts but herself. Therefore, I recall that scene with a peculiar and exquisite joy which the truly good never feel. Bee's travelling-skirt was tailor-made, tight at the belt, and of ample fulness around the bottom. She had on a shirt-waist, a linen collar, the Charvet tie, a black hat with a few gay coloured flowers on it, and a lace petticoat from the Rue de la Paix. At the first strains of the skirt dance from the delighted band Bee seized her skirts firmly and began the dance which is so familiar to us, but which those Tyrolese peasants had never seen before. Jimmie says he would rather see Bee do the skirt dance than any professional he ever saw on any stage. He says that her kicks are such poems that he forgives her everything when he thinks of them, but when she danced that night, Jimmie was so tickled by the excitement and polite interest she created in her primitive audience, that he...
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Good+ Book "May 1915" on flyleaf, two small stains bottom edge. Journey acrossFrance and Germany to Russia. good+, no dj, elegant stamped spine and front cover, blue cloth 303 pgs.
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VG. First edition bound in blue cloth with red, black, tan, and gold decor ations on the front board and spine. Frontis plate with tissue guard. 303 page plus ads at rear. A Very Good copy. Rubs to the book's corner s and spine tips. Slight spine slant. Covers are clean. Former owner's book plate is affixed to the front endpaper. Contents clean and unmar ked.
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