Summaries and Commentaries

Book 1: Chapters XVI–XVII

polonaise—an eighteenth-century dress with the skirt divided in front and worn looped back over an elaborate underskirt.

French leave—an unauthorized, unnoticed, or unceremonious departure; the act of leaving secretly or in haste.

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