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Mrs. Austen with her tireless smile enquired of Paliser, who, after speaking to the girls, had said something to Cantillon. "Somersaults being a specialty of his, I was telling him that now is the time for a triple one." Paliser turned to Margaret. She had said nothing. She was very pale. Mute, white, blonde, she was a vision. At table, Verelst, addressing him, asked: "How is your father?"
"Can you turn somersaults?" asked Sue. "Yes, I'll show you!" answered Bunny. And then, on the stage, he began turning over and over. All this was part of the play, of course, and Bunny was loudly clapped for the way in which he turned head over heels. He had practiced these somersaults many times, and Mart had helped him.
They go once or twice to the Metropolitan, and feel defrauded of their money if the prima donna fails to come forward to the prompter's box to run up some breakneck scales, and, having arrived at the top, descend by means of a chain of trills or series of somersaults.
She did not seem much older than Sue, but of course she was. She began to sing in a sweet, childish voice, and in the midst of her song a boy dressed in a suit of bright spangles suddenly appeared from the side. Without a word the boy began turning handsprings and somersaults and doing flipflops in front of the girl.
And they think I'm going to crawl about on my stomach on my vertebrated stomach! "Stomach," he repeated slowly, as though he chewed the indignity. Then suddenly, with a sort of fury, he made three vast strides and leapt towards them. He leapt badly; he made a series of somersaults in the air, whirled right over them, and vanished with an enormous splash amidst the cactus bladders.
"This aboue written testor is redy when called to giue oath to the aboue written testimony." EBENEZER BISHOP Kateran calls for somersaults Fits and spots
Poor people, unable to pay, were, according to the whim of the seigneur's men, put through some disagreeable, or humiliating, or ridiculous performance: they were either whipped, or made to walk on their hands, or to turn somersaults, or kiss the bolts of the toll-gatherer's gate. As to the women, they were subjected to revolting obscenities.
"I guess you're the treasurer of this show, aren't you?" he asked, and Sue noticed that the hardware man had something in his hand. "No no," said Bunny, shaking his head, "I wasn't a a treasure. I was a farm boy in one act and I turned somersaults in another act." "Well, I don't exactly mean that," said Mr. Raymond, with a laugh. "I mean you got up the show, didn't you?"
Now they are as graceful and sinuous as water-nymphs, and now they come tumbling head over heels, throwing somersaults, like clowns in the circus, with a "Here we are!" I can think of nothing like it but Rabelais, who had the same extraordinary gift of getting all the go out of words.
When he was recalled after his exit, he tumbled his thanks, giving us complex somersaults in lieu of bows. I sometimes fancy he was a holier person than the Chief of the Dancing Dervishes. The function and value of literature are curiously illustrated by the passing away of the Great White Elephant.
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