Dancing across the Color Line
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The central episode in Dickens%u2019s account of the Points begins with a long “descent” from the street%u2013through darkness, mud, and growing anxiety%u2013when suddenly, he finds himself in a dance cellar known as Almack%u2019s: What will we please to call for? A dance? It shall be done directly, sir: %u2018a regular …