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Updated: June 22, 2025
Francis Markrute stood by the fire for a while, and began from there: "You must go right back with me to early days, Sweet Lady," he said, "to a palace in a gloomy city and to an artiste a ballet-dancer but at the same time a great musicienne and a good and beautiful woman, a woman with red, splendid hair, like my niece.
Imagine a respectable charwoman in the tights of a ballet-dancer rolling drunk along the streets, and you will come to some faint notion of the appearance of that nine-hundred-ton, well-decked, once schooner-rigged cargo-boat as she staggered under her new help, shouting and raving across the deep.
Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills. Here the sleek capitalist and there the sinewy laborer; here the man of science and here the shoe-back; here the poet and here the water-rate collector; here the cabinet minister and there the ballet-dancer.
Just then from out the casket leaped a tiny Baby Elephant, about as large as a mouse, and began capering about on its toes. It was dressed in short, fluffy skirts, like those worn by a ballet-dancer, and it danced so funnily that all who saw it roared with laughter.
Among them was a little barelegged girl who, inspired by the music, was dancing and keeping perfect time as she tripped back and forth, pirouetted and swayed on the tips of her bare toes, flirting her little ragged frock, and kicking with quite the air of a ballet-dancer.
Mark Frettlby looked up suddenly, as Fitzgerald asked this question. "She went to England in 1858," said the aged one. "I'm not quite sure if it was July or August, but it was in 1858." "You will excuse me, Valpy, but I hardly think that these reminiscences of a ballet-dancer are amusing," said Frettlby, curtly, pouring himself out a glass of wine. "Let us change the subject."
Seeking for an explanation, he came to the conclusion that James, who had a slight weakness for the society of ladies connected with the stage, had made the acquaintance of some actress or other, ballet-dancer, singer, artiste, and had given her the nickname of Princess. That was all there was to be got from the diary. It amounted to nothing. There were, however, the loose papers.
The old man's face became fiery red and then deathly pale. He looked helplessly and pitifully from side to side. "Wind him up!" shouted a voice. "He's stopped short, never to go again," called another. "He's an old fraud, and his show's a fake!" "Speech! speech!" "No; a song! Let old dot-and-carry-one give us a song!" "Oh, shut up! Don't you see he's a ballet-dancer?"
The mischievous Bixiou was not long in revealing to his grandmother and the devoted Agathe that Philippe, the cashier, the hero of heroes, was in love with Mariette, the celebrated ballet-dancer at the Porte-Saint-Martin.
A dancing dervish, who has been patiently awaiting at the inner gate, now receives a nod of permission from the priest, and, after laying aside an outer garment, waltzes nimbly into the room, and straightway begins spinning round like a ballet-dancer in Italian opera, his arms extended, his long skirt forming a complete circle around him as he revolves, and his eyes fixed with a determined gaze into vacancy.
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