Chapter 35

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌⁠But the execution of Mr. Ducane's duty-dances is apparently no short task, nor one lightly or quickly accomplished. But few of them, as it turns out, are danced in the ball-room in the eye of the world, and of the electric light. A far larger number are danced on sofas, in obscure corners of little-frequented boudoirs, on steps of the stairs, and under the palm-fans and tree-ferns of the conservat