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Certainly there are no dancers like Taglioni, and Cerito, and Fanny Elsler, and Carlotta Grisi. After the opera and the ball, one finished the night at Vauxhall or Ranelagh; then as gay, and exactly the same, as they were when Miss Becky Sharpe and fat Jos supped there only five-and-thirty years before. Except at the Opera, and the Philharmonic, and Exeter Hall, one rarely heard good music.
To make amends for this, the opera shone in ballet, fairy-like performances in which pantomime and trap- doors played as important a part as the actual dancing. Nothing could have been more enchanting than the Diable Boiteux with its many and various tableaux and its dresses, and Fanny Elsler dancing the "cachucha," or the Sylphide or the Revolte du Serail with Taglioni.
Delano remarked: "I should think her style of dress rather too prononcé and theatrical; too suggestive of Fanny Elsler and the Bolero." "Doubtless it would be so for you or I," rejoined Mrs. Fitzgerald. "Mother used to say you had a poet lover, who called you the twilight cloud, violet dissolving into lilac.
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