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"Did they not?" said Vestris, amazed at the information; then, in a tone of compassion, "How much they are to be pitied!" Gaëtan retired from the stage at the successful début of Auguste, but appeared again from time to time to show his invulnerability to time.
And she locked the door. Sorelli's dressing-room was fitted up with official, commonplace elegance. A pier-glass, a sofa, a dressing-table and a cupboard or two provided the necessary furniture. On the walls hung a few engravings, relics of the mother, who had known the glories of the old Opera in the Rue le Peletier; portraits of Vestris, Gardel, Dupont, Bigottini.
I ventured to mention a ludicrous paragraph in the newspapers, that Dr. Johnson was learning to dance of Vestris. Lord Charlemont, wishing to excite him to talk, proposed in a whisper, that he should be asked, whether it was true. 'Shall I ask him? said his Lordship. We were, by a great majority, clear for the experiment.
She still appeared in her Marquise costume and danced a minuet with Monsieur de Truffigny, Monsieur Le Duc de la Jabotiere's attache; and the Duke, who had all the traditions of the ancient court, pronounced that Madame Crawley was worthy to have been a pupil of Vestris, or to have figured at Versailles.
When Her Majesty was about leaving her box, old Vestris appeared at the entrance, leading his son to thank the Queen. "'Ah, Monsieur Vestris, said the Queen to the father, you never danced as your son has done this evening. "'That's very natural, Madame, answered old Vestris, 'I never had a Vestris, please Your Majesty, for a master.
Johnson was at first startled, and in some heat answered, 'How can your Lordship ask so simple a question? But immediately recovering himself, whether from unwillingness to be deceived, or to appear deceived, or whether from real good humour, he kept up the joke: 'Nay, but if any body were to answer the paragraph, and contradict it, I'd have a reply, and would say, that he who contradicted it was no friend either to Vestris or me.
He went straight to the point indicated by the young man, saw the person he was seeking dancing an ete, which seemed, by the intricacy of its weaving, if I may be pardoned for this technical term, to have issued from the salons of Vestris himself. Morgan made a sign to the dancer.
My son is very sorry and will dance most bewitchingly if Her Majesty will graciously condescend to order his release! "I repeated the conversation verbatim, to Her Majesty, who enjoyed the arrogance of the Florentine, and sent her page to order young Vestris to be set immediately at liberty. "Having exerted all the wonderful powers of his art, the Queen applauded him very much.
In 1824 Pasta made her first English appearance at the King's Theatre, at which was engaged an extraordinary assemblage of talent, Mesdames Colbran-Rossini, Catalani, Konzi di Begnis, "Vestris, Caradori, and Pasta. The great tragedienne made her first appearance in Desdemona, and, as all Europe was ringing with her fame, the curiosity to see and hear her was almost unparalleled.
He was accustomed to say: "Auguste is a better dancer than I am; he had Gaëtan Vestris for a father, an advantage which nature refused me."
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