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Still, while our government suffered these diplomatic vexations, and our citizens these losses, and our merchants these annoyances, the mass of the American people gave little serious thought to it. The newspapers kept us reminded of an opera bouffe war that was going on, and now and then there came information of delicate and troublesome diplomatic duties for our Minister to Spain.
His eyes swam in tears; he became pale and red; he trembled; he recovered himself; his face was now joyous, now exulting, gay, jocose; in fact, he was twenty actors in one; he rang the changes from Rachel to Bouffe; and he finished by relieving us of our tears, and overwhelming us with astonishment.
It could scarcely be called the fault of the opera bouffe that the English burlesque should have come of its success; nor could the public blame it for the great favor the burlesque won in those far-off winters, if indeed the public wishes to bestow blame for this.
"To his utter consternation, he saw Cerizet, emerged from his wrappings like a butterfly from the chrysalis, holding out the accursed bundle of documents. "'When I was down on my luck, I learned to act on the stage, added Cerizet. 'I am as good as Bouffe at old men. "'I have fallen among thieves! shouted Maxime. "'No, Monsieur le Comte, you are in Mlle. Hortense's house.
As a country gentleman, or an l'homme d'affaires, he insisted upon dressing each character with the most rigid accuracy, and an exactitude that reminded one somewhat of Bouffe, or Ferville, at the play. I wonder whether, when is he quite old, he will think proper to wear a pigtail, like his old father?
Theatrical performances are the chief entertainment in Burma; the Burmese as a nation delight in plays operatic, tragic, opera bouffe and ballets, such as the "Han Pwe," when a number of young girls, all dressed as royalties, posture and dance with extreme grace; and as their training is perfect, the entertainment evokes unqualified applause.
If there is a single modern orchestral work that can be compared to either of the two great ballets of Strawinsky for rhythmical vitality, it is "Daphnis et Chloé," with its flaming dionysiac pulses, its "pipes and timbrels," its wild ecstasy. The same delicate clockwork mechanism characterizes "L'Heure espagnol," his opera bouffe, that characterizes "Petruchka" and "Le Rossignol."
He seemed to be wondering if she were not making sport of him. "Why should I carry a six-shooter if I did not?" he asked. This convinced her that his revolver was a part of his play cowboy costume. He had come out of the East thinking that desperado etiquette of the Bad Lands was opéra bouffe. "Leddy is a dead shot. He will give you no chance!" she insisted. "I should think not," Jack mused.
It is not every young man of the present day who would have the self-denial to spend his youth, like Jacinto, in a town where there are neither theatres, nor opera bouffe, nor dancers, nor philosophers, nor athenaeums, nor magazines, nor congresses, nor any other kind of diversions or entertainments." "I am quite contented here," responded Pepe.
"It is so very little," faltered Lucia, "that that perhaps it isn't a reason." Octavia looked at herself in the glass again. "It isn't a very good reason," she remarked, "but I suppose it will do." She paused, and looked Lucia in the face. "I don't think that's a little thing," she said. "To be told you look like an opera bouffe actress."
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