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She had managed to get, through one art dealer and another, orders for some of her spirited clay figurines. There was a dancing girl, a visualization of one of the moods of Carmencita, a celebrated dancer of the period, which had caught the public fancy at least the particular art dealer who was handling her work for her had managed to sell some eighteen replicas of it at $175 each.
These tenants were a man known as Iron Jaws, a rope dancer called Fanfar, a girl named Caillette, and a clown with an odd name. This Fanfar gave lessons in prestigiation, but the people who went up his private stairs were well dressed, and most of them looked like old soldiers.
"'One day I remember that some of our principal men, judging of the mind of their conqueror by their own, brought to him a celebrated dancer; who, at that time, engaged the whole attention of our city, and seemed to interest it much more than the loss of liberty.
His face clouded over. "The experience of a friend of mine." Magda caught her breath. "Not you don't mean " "Oh, no" divining her thought "not the friend of whom you know who loved the dancer. She hurt him" looking at her significantly "but she didn't injure him to that extent. Circe turned men into swine, you remember. My friend was too fine a character for her to spoil like that." "I'm glad."
He never left me long out of his sight in these outlandish places. "'That is the Batouch Sidi, the brother of the Caïd of Beni-Kouidar, he said. 'Algia, the dancer to whom Monsieur Henri has just given money, is his chère amie. But as the government has just made him a sheik, he dares not have her in his house for fear of the scandal. So he has put her with the dancers.
"You DIDN'T 'butt in'! You're a beautiful dancer, better than Captain Sayre, in some ways, though you don't know so many fancy steps. But you picked up my idea of the apple blossom steps at once!" "Because that's OUR dance. And you're my property to-night, anyway. Didn't Neptune crown the Spirit of the Sea?" "Yes, and I haven't yet thanked you for this lovely wreath! It's the most beautiful thing!
Who has not felt his imagination stirred by the contrasts thus offered contrasts never more apparent than at these hours of supposed rest? Grim walls, with dimpled children sleeping behind them! Places of merrymaking athrob with music and dazzling with jets of incandescent light, with grief in the heart of the dancer and despair making raucous the enforced laugh!
Norbury supposed that Arthur Barville and his wife had already arrived at Venice. She was more interested in meeting the young married couple than in awaiting the result of the hard bargaining which delayed the engagement of the new dancer; and she volunteered to make her brother's apologies, if his theatrical business caused him to be late in keeping his appointment at the honeymoon festival.
It was one of those strange but rather frequent cases of long sleeps reported in the newspapers, although it was by no means one which might be classed as record-breaking. The interest in Phelps lay, a great deal, in the fact that the young man had married the popular dancer, Anginette Petrovska, a few months previously.
"Parbleu! true enough, my dear," he called after her, "I should think you could you mind how we used trip it together. You were the prettiest dancer them all, and the young fellows all went to the swords about you!"
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