Jos performs a Polonaise

Jos performs a Polonaise

Illustrator: William Makepeace Thackeray

Illustration to Chapter 63, Thackeray's Vanity Fair

[Emmy, in a pink crape] walked a Polonaise with Major Dobbin at a Courtball, in which easy dance Mr. Jos had the honour of leading out the Countess of Schlüsselback, an old lady with a hump back, but with sixteen good quarters of nobility, and related to half the royal houses of Germany.


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