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The stranger who had just joined us, could not help remarking our looks of satisfaction at the choice of ground, and observed to me "This is not the first affair that this little spot has witnessed; and the moulinet of St. Cloud is, I think, the very best 'meet' about Paris." Trevanion who, during these few minutes, had been engaged with Derigny, now drew me aside.
Next, from the wall he took down a cross-bow, and from a corner a moulinet for winding it. With his foot in the stirrup he made the cord taut and set the shaft in position. And now he closed the door, and, going to the window, which was little more than an arrow-slit, he shouldered his arbalest. He took careful aim in the direction of the ducal tent, and loosed the quarrel.
This was accompanied with that significant flourish with his pole which is called le moulinet, because the artist, holding it in the middle, brandishes the two ends in every direction like the sails of a windmill in motion.
He attempted a "moulinet," and twirled his sabre with the dexterity of a single-stick. He wanted to bewilder Philippe, and strike his weapon so as to disarm him; but at the first encounter he felt that the colonel's wrist was iron, with the flexibility of a steel string.
Philippe received a sabre-cut which slashed open his forehead and a part of his face, but he cleft Max's head obliquely by the terrible sweep of a "moulinet," made to break the force of the annihilating stroke Max aimed at him. These two savage blows ended the combat, at the ninth minute.
La grande chaine, all the couples move quite round the figure, giving alternately the right and left hand to each in succession, beginning with the right, until all have regained their places, as in last figure of the Lancers. La main, the hand. La meme pour les cavaliers, gentlemen do the same. Le moulinet, hands across.
Changez vos dames, change partners. Contre partie pour les autres, the other dancers do the same figure. Demi promenade, half promenade. Demi chaine Anglaise, half right and left. Demi moulinet, ladies all advance to centre, right hands across, and back to places. Demi tour
At roulette there is a pictorial object and dramatic incident; the board, the turning of the moulinet, and the swift revolutions of an ivory ball, its lowered speed, its irregular bounds, and its final settlement in one of the many holes, numbered and colored.
Balancez quatre en ligne, four dancers set in a line, joining hands, as in La Poule. Balancez en moulinet, gentlemen and their partners give each other right hands across, and balancez in the form of a cross. Balancez et tour des mains, all set to partners, and turn to places. Ballotez, do the same step four times without changing your place. Chaine Anglaise, opposite couples right and left.
And Tonio Kröger, with lowered head and gloomy brow, laid his hand on the hands of the four ladies, on that of Inga Holm, and danced "moulinet." All around there arose a giggling and laughing. M. Knaak assumed a ballet pose which expressed a conventionalized horror. "O dear," he cried. "Halt, halt! Kröger has got in among the ladies. En arrière, Miss Kröger, back, fi donc!
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