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| | The ball-room manual of contra dances and social cotillons, with remarks on quadrilles and Spanish dance. |
 | | Ladies all forward and back, forward and join hands in the centre-gents, all forward and back, forward and join hands in the centre, facing partners-all balance and turn partners-first couple balance at the head, down the centre and remain at foot. |
 | | When a lady declines to dance with you, bear the declination with becoming grace, and if you afterwards see her dancing with another, seem not to notice it; otherwise, the lady is left with no choice of partners. |
 | | Never engage a lady to dance beyond the fourth set on her list, leaving it optional with her to engage or not;—a rule which may be aptly illustrated by the satirical remark of a fashionable |
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