She participated in all the vanities of the great world, went to balls, where she sat in a corner, painted and dressed in old-fashioned style, like a deformed but indispensable ornament of the ball-room
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time for sleigh rides, and balls, and assemblies, and cotillions. And open house on New Year's, and all-day picnics in the woods. And even that prettiest of all vanished customs, the serenade.
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Yes, madam, Manderley is a big place. This was the banquet hall in the old days. It's still used on great occasions, such as a big dinner or a ball.
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The young men of the capital flocked to his rooms, forgetting balls for cards, and preferring the emotions of faro to the seductions of flirting.
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