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They had crept under chairs, waved flags from tables, thrown up colored balls, and unraveled puzzles all to the rhythm of the waltz-measure babbling on like a summer brooklet under the sun, through emerald meadows. As long as the lady seated on the chair in the centre pleases, the gentlemen are to gyrate round her.
"This shall be my answer, Nera siren," whispered Nobili. As he speaks he clasps her in his arms; a passionate kiss is imprinted upon her lips. Hours have passed; one intoxicating waltz-measure has been exchanged for another, that falls upon the ear as enthralling as the last. Not an instant had the dances ceased.
Come, amico." I added, turning to Ferrari, "those are your own sentiments you have often declared them to me." He smiled uncomfortably, and his brows contracted. I could easily perceive that he was annoyed. To change the tone of the conversation I gave a signal for the music to recommence, and instantly the melody of a slow, voluptuous Hungarian waltz-measure floated through the room.
There are wings poised in giant flight, a sphere supported by four allegorical figures whose attitude of turning suggests some vague waltz-measure a total effect of equilibrium well conveying the illusion of the sweeping onward of the earth; and there are arms raised to give the signal, bodies heroically risen, containing an allegory, a symbol which stamps them with death and immortality, secures to them a place in history, in legend, in that ideal world of museums which is visited by the curiosity or the admiration of the nations.
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