a hunchback, and a thin, red-haired young man, very
serious behind enormous spectacles. When she finished
screaming at them and had held out both her arms in an
imploring gesture, these two bowed gravely, and then
the Jew sat down at the grand piano and the red-haired
spectacled one seated himself behind some drums. They
began playing-and very well they played, too-and in
a moment the centre of the room was cleared for
dancing

4'You veel danz, eh? Pleass?" said Something-insky.

He was a good dancer, and though he was not quite
tall enough for her, they got on very well together. As
he piloted her in and out, for nearly everybody was
dancing and the floor was crowded, he talked the whole
time. "I study here ee-conom-eegs," he told her, "at
Lon-don School of Ee-conom-eegs," and he was very
serious about his economics, but it was difficult to
understand much of what he said about them. Very
soon he passed to more intimate matters. "Yes, I like
Eng-lish girls vairy moch. Oh, but I am vairy saad, vairy,
vairy saad now," he told her, his hazel eyes dancing with
pleasure. "I ltd in High-gate and in High-gate I have a
girl, an Eng-lish girl, vairy beautiful—Flora. She leefs,
too, in High-gate, Flora, and she has blue eyess and
golden hair. For two veeks, you see, we have a quarrel
Oh yes, it is vairy seely, but it is vairy saad, too. One
night I go to movees. I ask Flora to go too, but no-
she cannot go. So I go-by-myself. I am standing out-
side and I see a girl I know, a girl from High-gate.
Vairy nice girl—but—aw, she is noding to me. But I am
pol-ite, I say to her 'Good evening, mees, you go to
movees, too?' I am by-myself. I take her weet me into
movees. Noding, noding at all. But after she tell Flora