"Leave the New Dance to the Spinster, She Will Stumble" - The Duke Led Her Out Himself

📖 The Regency Canvas is now in books! All 48 stories, word for word, in 4 volumes with historical notes and Large Print. https://regencycanvas.com "Leave the new dance to the spinster. She will only stumble, poor thing, and spoil it for the young ones." That was the joke at the Duke of Marchbourne's ball, the night the new continental set the whole county had practised for 3 weeks fell to pieces on the floor. The Duke had sent to London for a fashionable dancing master and promised his county the newest figures from the Continent, and the accomplished young ladies came apart the moment the real thing was called. What nobody there knew was that the plain spinster of 47, seated with the chaperones where she had sat for 20 years, had learned those figures in Vienna as a girl, when half the room was still in the nursery. Told to leave the dancing to the young, she took the floor when the set collapsed, and danced it as it was meant to be danced. What the spinster saw that the dancing master did not, what the Duke did when the floor had cleared, and the quiet man who was watching from the wall, are the whole of this story. Don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss new stories, and keep the bell on. Tell us what you made of Dorothea Lyle and the Duke of Marchbourne in the comments. And tell us where you are watching from and what time you saw this video. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events are imaginary, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Chapters: 0:00 The Bench by the Wall 2:19 The Sporting Duke 3:46 A Youth in Vienna 5:38 The Counting Master 8:43 The Set Comes Apart 10:36 What the Spinster Saw 17:07 The Still Centre of the Floor 20:37 The Duke Leads Her Out 21:30 Mr. Thorne's Question 24:44 One Dance a Year #RegencyRomance #HistoricalRomance #RegencyStories #DukeRomance #TheRegencyCanvas