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Raven Zachy, from the music stage, reached his glass to Barefoot. She touched it with her lips and gave it back, when he said, "If you dance, Amrie, I will play with the whole power of my instrument, so that the angels shall come down to listen. "
"Yes," said Amrie, half in sport and half in sadness; "but if no angel come down to ask me, I fear I shall have no partner. " And now she considered, Why it was necessary to have a policeman at a dance? Then she thought, "He is a man like other men, although he wears a sword and a laced hat, and before he became a policeman, he was a young fellow like the others. It must be vexatious, that he is not allowed to dance. But what is all this to me? I also must look on, and I am not paid for it. "