" And Nicholas again kissed her hand.

Iogel's were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow.

So said the mothers as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most enjoyable.

That year two marriages had come of these balls.

The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances.