At every wheel round Mr Bang slewed his head a little on
one side, and peeped in at one of her bright eyes, and then tossing his
cranium on t'other side, took a squint in at the other, and then cast
his eyes towards the roof, and muttered with his lips as if he had been
shot all of a heap by the blind boy's but--shaft; but every now and then
as we passed, the rogue would stick his tongue in his cheek, yet so
slightly as to be perceptible to no one but myself. After this heat,
Massa Aaron and myself were perambulating the ballroom, quite satisfied
with our own prowess and I was churming to myself, "Voulez vous dansez,
mademoiselle"--"De tout mon coeur," said a buxom brown dame, about
eighteen stone by the coffee--mill in St James's Street. That devil
Aaron gave me a look that I swore I would pay him for, the villain; as
the extensive mademoiselle, suiting the action to the word, started up,
and hooked on, and as a cotillion had been called, there I was, figuring
away most emphatically, to Bang and Transom's great entertainment. At
length the dance was at an end, And a waltz was once more called, and
having done my duty, I thought I might slip out between the acts; so I
offered to hand my solid armful to her seat--"Certainement vouz pouvez
bien restez encore un moment."
The devil confound you and Aaron Bang, thought I--but waltz I must, and
away we whirled until the room spun round faster than we did, and when I
was at length emancipated, my dark fair and fat one whispered, in a
regular die--away, "J'espere vous revoir bientot.
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