The Magic Lantern: Having a Ball and Christmas Eve

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Preparations for the Ball

It all begins with a birthday celebration for Matilde, the young lady of the house, and her papa--who loves her dearly, and has just turned a splendid business deal--is going to spare no expense.

More than anything, Matilde wants to dance, despite all the objections of her mama, a respectable, simple woman from the countryside. It is important to please Matilde, and this idea triumphs over all scruples.

"A ball!" her mama said. "How can we have a ball when we hardly know anyone in Mexico City? Who will come?"

"As far as that's concerned, mama, don't worry. I'll invite the Machuca sisters."

"Who are the Machuca sisters?"

"The girls who live across the street. We've started to say hello, and I'm sure that if I invite them properly, they'll come."

"As for me," her papa added, "I'll round up my circle of friends."

"And your lady friends, too?" his wife asked.

"I haven't become acquainted with any yet, but I'm sure many ladies will come."

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Table of contents

  • Title Page iii
  • Contents v
  • Series Editors'' General Introduction vii
  • Introduction xi
  • Notes xxxiii
  • Prologue 3
  • Having a Ball 5
  • I- Preparations for the Ball 7
  • II- How Couples Were Recruited and Guests Invited 15
  • III- About the Machuca Sisters and Others like Them 25
  • IV- In Which, among Other Things, the Girls Who Frequent the Pane Baths Prepare Themselves for the Colonel''s Ball 34
  • V- Concerning What Happened to the Virtue of a Lady Invited to Saldaña''s Ball 45
  • VI- How the Appearances Maintained by These Upstarts Tend to Compromise Any Serious Result 69
  • VII- The Ball Begins 79
  • VII- How the Heat from Candles, Combined with a Santa Barbara Cognac and Other Evils, Can Create Pandemonium at a Ball 100
  • IX- Conclusion 115
  • Christmas Eve - Negatives Exposed from December 24 To December 25, 1882 119
  • I 121
  • II 123
  • III 126
  • IV 129
  • V 133
  • VI 136
  • VII 140
  • VIII 142
  • IX 146
  • XI 156
  • XII 162
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