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'Now you go back home and tell the manager to set you to work, I says, 'and your wages won't be big enough to make you interesting to any skirt-dancer, either, I says. 'And you make a study of the hog from the ground up.
Whyte's model, and Pinkie McCormick we call her Pinkie because she's got that beautiful red hair you artists like so much and Lizzie Burke." I sent a shower of spray from the fixative over the canvas, and said: "Well, go on." "We saw Kelly and Baby Barnes the skirt-dancer and and all the rest. I made a mash." "Then you have gone back on me, Tessie?" She laughed and shook her head.
The very suggestion is, of course, absurd whereas with women, in very deed, it is as with the temple in Keats's lines: ... even as the trees That whisper round a temple become soon Dear as the temple's self. Properly understood, therefore, the cult of the skirt-dancer has a religious significance, and man's preoccupation with petticoats is but the popular recognition of the divinity of woman.
There was no end to his inventions for spoiling the simplicity and truthfulness of Maxwell's piece, which he yet respected for the virtues in it, and hoped the greatest things from. One afternoon he arrived with a scheme for a very up-to-date scene in the last act; have it a supper instead of a dinner, and then have a skirt-dancer introduced, as society people had been having Carmencita.
The keeper says to him, "Dance," and although he is about ten feet tall, he sits down with his scaly legs spread out on each side of him, and, shutting his eyes, he throws his long, ugly red neck from side to side, making a curious grunting noise, and waving his wings in billowy line like a skirt-dancer. It was too wonderful to see him, and it was almost as revolting as a real dervish.
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