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With his lips he was smiling approval at the little danseuse who was pirouetting near our table, but it seemed to me that his mind was busy with other thoughts. Suddenly he turned his head toward mine. "Monsieur must remember," he said quietly, "that a place like this is as the froth on our champagne. It is all show. It exists and it passes away.
Just imagine the luxury of a warm day's journey in such a vehicle, which has neither springs nor backed seats three fiery horses fastened to it, and each pulling, plunging, and pirouetting on his own account; a ferocious yamtschick cracking his whip and shrieking "Shivar! shivar!" faster! faster! the wagon, rattling all over, plunging into ruts, jumping over stones, ripping its way through bogs and mud-banks; your bones shaken nearly out of their sockets; your vertebrae partially dislocated; your mouth filled with dust; your tongue swollen and parched; your eyes blinded with grit; your yamtschick reeling drunk with vodka, and bound to draw to the destined station or some worse place; your confidence in men and horses shaken with your bones; your views of the future circumscribed by every turn of the road oh! it is charming; it is the very climax of human enjoyment.
Will I do? What sort of a boy do I make; all right? Are you satisfied, sir?" She made a little rush forward, eluding Velasco, and stopped before the mirror with her hands boyishly deep in her pockets, glancing back over her shoulder and pirouetting slowly backwards and forwards. "The hair looks a little rough!" she exclaimed, "I cut it with a pair of shears, or perhaps it was a razor, who knows!
Little girls, all of them thin, and in short skirts, were already pirouetting, and humming airs. Older girls stood about with their legs crossed, or, half-stooping, displayed their bosoms while retying the laces of their pink shoes. Others, wearing a kind of Siamese headdress with ornaments of gold, were laughing and clashing together their little silver cymbals. Awkward fellows with false beards, dressed like high priests in robes of yellow, striped with red, elbowed past and jostled against the girls quite unceremoniously. An usher, dressed
We've found a way to help!" sang the two girls, pirouetting back into the circle of firelight. "We won't tell till it's all started, but it's perfectly splendid, and practical too." "And so ladylike!" added Julia triumphantly. "How much?" asked Gilbert succinctly. The girls whispered a minute or two, and appeared to be multiplying twenty-five first by fifteen, and then again by twenty.
"Just as well," said Dolly, delighted at her achievement and pirouetting before a mirror. "it's time I began to be a little grown up, mother." "Yes, I suppose it is. I felt just the same when Trudy put up her curls for the first time. I am a foolish old thing!" "Now, don't you talk like that," cried Dolly, "or I'll pull down my hair and wear it in tails till I'm fifty!"
In short, all the moveables got in motion, capering about; pirouetting, hands across, right and left, like so many devils, all except a great clothes-press, which kept curtseying and curtseying, like a dowager, in one corner, in exquisite time to the music; being either too corpulent to dance, or perhaps at a loss for a partner.
"But you must needs spy and watch over us all, because you are a-a " "Screw!" laughed Hippolyte. "Because you are a humbug, sir; and thought fit to worry people for half an hour, and tried to frighten them into believing that you would shoot yourself with your little empty pistol, pirouetting about and playing at suicide!
But there he is, pirouetting away with the pretty female organist, the chaplain standing by and smiling approval, and the young doctors doing the polite to a few invited guests, but not disdaining, every now and then, to take a turn with a patient. Quadrilles and Lancers follow, but no "round dances."
He was in the library reading a letter when there burst upon his sight through the open doorway a vision that took his breath away. Pauline, in full jockey uniform, white and blue and yellow, was pirouetting on her gleaming black boots before him. "Polly!" he cried, unable to grasp the meaning of the prank. "Have you cut off your hair?" he added in alarm.
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