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I recall, for example, the heightened interest with which I beheld my first Boston cat-bird; standing on the back of one of the seats in the Garden, steadying himself with oscillations of his tail, a conveniently long balance-pole, while he peeped curiously down into a geranium bed, within the leafy seclusion of which he presently disappeared.
A tight-rope had been stretched across the Yellowstone River, and on this, clad in pink tights, balance-pole in hand, Signor Antolini had walked, high over the more or less raging flood. Do you ever tire of shows? I hope you don't. I don't, and offhand I can't think of many people who do.
"But we don't need to distrust our enemies," remarked Florine. Nathan defended du Tillet; he was the best, the most upright of men. This existence, which was really that of a dancer on the tight rope without his balance-pole, would have alarmed any one, even the most indifferent, had it been seen as it really was. Du Tillet watched it with the cool eye and the cynicism of a parvenu.
In buoyant spirits for this was action, and action makes lusty appeal to youth he trotted or galloped as the descent was easy or sharply inclined; the low hedges he took in great sprawling jumps, the ditches in vast giant strides arms working as balance-pole, humming as he ran. Upon the lawn he became more cautious. But the moon showed Herons' Holt sleepy-eyed-blinds drawn.
You take the clothes-line and stretch it in the grape-arbor better not make it too high at first and then you take the clothes-prop for a balance-pole and go right ahead er er as far as you can. The real reason why you fall off so is that you don't have chalk on your shoes. Got to have lots of chalk. Then after you get used to the rope wabbling so all-fired fast, you can do it like a mice.
From this time du Tillet held his balance-pole so well as he danced the tight-rope of financial speculation, that he was rich and elegant in appearance before he became so in reality.
"Upset our money-box, break one's balance-pole, smash our refuge, yes, that would be serious," said Blondet with a tragic air. "It seems to me from what I hear that you want to play politics instead of comedies," said Florine, suddenly appearing. "Yes, my dear, yes," said Raoul, affectionately taking her by the neck and kissing her forehead. "Don't make faces at that; you won't lose anything.
He caught up the long staff that acts something like a balance-pole in skeeing, and darted away. Alwin followed, with an occasional prod of his staff into a shadow that seemed thicker than it should be. By a side-gate, they left the courtyard and struck out across the fields, where the snow was packed as hard as a road-bed.
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