It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; - but when a beginning is made - when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt - it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.