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Had Harietta been true to that side, and had she been acting from patriotism, he could have desired to save her the death sentence now. But she had never been true; no country mattered to her; she had given to him secrets as well as to Hans! Then he laughed to himself grimly. So her danseur at the Ardayre ball was the first husband!
"Of course " he did not even turn his head towards her. "Have you had your heart's desire here in England?" "Before this stupid war came yes now I'm through with it. I'm for Paris again." "I suppose I must have been mistaken, but I thought I caught sight of your handsome German friend in the hall just now?" "German friend who?" "Your danseur at the Ardayre ball. I have forgotten his name."
I am the prémier danseur in the ballet of the Royal Opera House in Berlin. Worn with the heavy work in Fantasca, which we produced elaborately and which ran long, I came down here when the season closed, for change and rest, and so fell in with you. These young Herren and Damen are the coryphés and figurantes, who in Berlin or in other cities have taken part with me in productions.
After we had duly admired these decorations, and listened with patience to the old man's garrulous talk about them, he told us that he had yet another to show, one presented to him many years ago by a great man of that day, a man embalmed for all posterity on account of his unrivalled performances upon the tight-rope, a man of whom he reduced all description to mendicancy in designating him as un danseur très-renommé sur la corde tendue.
Charles X. remembered it and wished that the Marquis, then nearly eighty, should open the ball with little Mademoiselle, who was but nine. Still a beau danseur, the old Englishman had not forgotten the pirouettes of Versailles; all the court admired, and the young princes were greatly amused. The ball was a marvellous success. It was a revival of the beautiful fetes of the Renaissance.
There was present a great Scotch lord, the Marquis of Huntley, who belonged to a very illustrious Jacobite house. In his youth he had been what was then called a beau danseur, and had had the honor of opening a fancy dress ball at the Chateau of Versailles with the Queen Marie Antoinette.
Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui l'obtint, is hardly more of a caricature than in the days of Figaro; and the minister doubtless thinks himself not only blameless, but meritorious, if the man dances well.
The quick breathing, the impatient tapping movement of the foot, the swift backward springs to obtain a better view, so characteristic of him in moments of doubt, and which had twenty years before earned him the name of le danseur from his fellow-copyists at the Louvre, betrayed to even a casual observer that his discouragement and discontent were at boiling point.
Possibly it is because 'comedian' and 'tragedian' seem to be too exclusively masculine so that a want is felt for words to indicate a female tragedian and a female comedian. Probably it is for the same reason that a male dancer is not termed a danseur while a female dancer is termed a danseuse.
If he did such things, the old Huronite was foggy upon the subject and reserved, limiting his assertions to the statement, that "the British actor" was a farceur, and likewise un danseur très-renommé sur la corde tendue. Long afterwards, when I resided at Quebec, my visits to Lorette were very frequent.
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