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Updated: September 3, 2025
Hence the present symposium at Headquarters Mess. Wagstaffe's eyes twinkled. "Will each officer present," he said, "kindly name his pet aversion among his fellow-creatures?" "A person or a type?" asked Mr. Waddell cautiously. "A type." Colonel Kemp led off. "Male ballet-dancers," he said. "Fat, shiny men," said Bobby Little, "with walrus mustaches!"
The days are over, when every petty German prince must create in his domains a servile imitation of the stiff parks of Versailles, the days of powdered wigs and long cues, when French ballet-dancers gave the tone, and French actors strutted on every stage, when Boileau was the great canon of criticism, and Racine and Molière perpetuated in tragedy and comedy a pseudo-classicism.
We must even comprise among those, without fear that they will be corrupted by their company, the kept women, the milliners, the shop girls, saleswomen, actresses, singers, the girls of the opera, the ballet-dancers, upper servants, chambermaids, etc.
Molina burst out laughing, his ever-present laugh that sounded like the shaking of a money-bag, when he ran his eye over the list and found accompanying the names of ballet-dancers and members of the chorus, the distinguished particles of some habitués. "Look! your Excellency It is stupendous! Here: Amélie Dunois, 2 francs. Jeanne Garnot, 5 francs. Bel-Enfant Charles , 1 fr., 50 centimes.
A series of windmills, a group of inflated balloons, a flock of geese all asleep on one leg, a circle of ballet-dancers, just poised to begin, a band of patriots just kneeling to take an oath upon their country's altar, a senate of tailors, a file of soldiers, a whole parish of Shaker worshippers, a Japanese embassy performing Ko-tow: these all in turn come like shadows, so depart.
He wore the uniform of the national guard, like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart.
The Prince, robbed of the woman he loved, took the bit in his teeth, and plunged so deeply into extravagant dallying with ballet-dancers and stars of the opera that the King was glad to choose the lesser evil, and to summon Wilhelmine back to her Prince's arms.
The shooting at Monte Carlo. Gaming-tables, empty purses. And again ballet-dancers. "To divide two millions!" cried one. "That will clear my debts, with a little for Dieppe." "Two hundred and fifty thousand francs! Princely!" And then the voice of the master-spirit, pitiless, ironical; Picard's. "Was there ever such a dupe? And not to laugh in his face is penance for my sins.
What this means we haven't the remotest idea; but we do know that the ballet-dancers' legs have the knee-pans at the back of the joint, and that the canary-bird looks more as if he wanted to eat the coal-scuttle than as if he desired to sing. "This is too bad. Do you know what that beautiful group really represents?
The morning of the second day was devoted to incidental things; in the afternoon we attended a Chinese theatre which was similar to the one we had seen in Hong-Kong, only actors, who were grotesque acrobats, now took the place of the previous ballet-dancers. In the evening we attended a fine concert in the Public Gardens. The music was furnished by the Cameron Guards in Highland costume.
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