The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens - Books -  - 9798694497329 - February 21, 2021
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The Battle of Life

Book Excerptte unconstrained and careless, danced in the freedom and gaiety of their hearts. If there were no such thing as display in the world, my private opinion is, and I hope you agree with me, that we might get on a great deal better than we do, and might be infinitely more agreeable company than we are. It was charming to see how these girls danced. They had no spectators but the apple-pickers on the ladders. They were very glad to please them, but they danced to please themselves (or at least you would have supposed so); and you could no more help admiring, than they could help dancing. How they did dance!Not like opera-dancers. Not at all. And not like Madame Anybody's finished pupils. Not the least. It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing. It was neither in the old style, nor the new style, nor the French style, nor the English style: though it may have been, by accident, a trifle in the Spanish style, which is a free and joyous one, I am t

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 21, 2021
ISBN13 9798694497329
Pages 82
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   122 g
Language English  

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