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Updated: May 27, 2025
"You know, my boy, that in such a time as this if a leader and above all such a capering, high-kicking colt as you begins to mope and droop like a cab-horse in the rain, his men will soon not be worth a what?... Oh, blast the others, when you do so you're moping, and whether your men can stand it or not, I can't! what?... Well, then, for God's sake don't!
He was just beginning a few steps of a noiseless high-kicking dance when there was a tap at the door, and he collapsed into an attitude of weak-kneed humility. Dom Hildebrand came in. "If you're ready," he said, "we might go down to supper." Frank relates in his diary that of all else in the monastery, apart from the church, the refectory and its manners impressed him most.
Whether he liked it or not, he was part of the thing which in its entirety meant high-kicking and toe-practice, as well as the expression of the most mystical passions of the heart. There was an austerity in him which the fact offended, and he did what he could to appease this austerity by reflecting that it was the drama and never the theatre that he loved; but for the time this was useless.
First she stood tentatively, flexing her knees and testing her weight. Then, stepping boldly out into a clear space, she began to do a high-kicking acrobatic dance; and went on doing it as effortlessly and as rhythmically as though she were on an Earthly stage. "You mustn't do that, Miss!" A stewardess came bustling up. Or, rather, not exactly bustling.
After that glorious trinity, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer, hanging in the Rijks, what a piquant contrast to study the new-fangled heresies and fantastic high-kicking of the Futurists!
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