"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been
known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being
at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body
or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the felicities of rapid motion
have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does
not ask for more." Jane Austen, Emma
