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...amed of. You will see tackling rise to such a high art, that it will surpass ballet in its pure poetic beauty. You will see foot races, tumbles. …... ...lowly servants had an inner moral dignity not only equal to their masters and mistresses; but superior to them. The idea that your entire Life i... ...vagant plumage and fancy birdlike costumes on stage, in movies, in operas, in ballet, in clubs. Human culture is obsessed with looking down upon th... ...e? What was the highest form of European culture for 100’s of years? It was ballet and opera. Singing like birds… humans trying to escape gravit... ...tesque. What was the highest form of love in the highest European culture of ballet? The dying swan. The obsession of watching a swan die, over, a...

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... rose-pink ladies and mad grammarians, sonneteering marquises, high-flying mistresses, plain-minded maids, in- ter-threading as in a loom, noisy as at... ...rivalled studies of mankind in society. For the amusement of the Court the ballets and farces were writ- ten, which are dearer to the rabble upper, as... ... of marionnettes. The Comedy might be performed by a troop of the corps de ballet; and in the recollection of the reading it resolves to an animated s...

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...hood to understand or resent the wit. Little did he know that this was the ballet-like interlude in a great and terrible tragedy, whose first act was ... ...let of Pearls CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BALLET MONSIEUR’S BAL... ...que on Wednesday night, and must dress at once to rehearse her part in the ballet specially designed by Monsieur. Her first impulse was to hurry to he... ...ll tell you nothing; but if you would only interfere to spare me from this ballet! It is Monsieur’s contrivance! Ah! Madame, could you but speak to th... ...elestial dance. This dance had been the special device of Monsieur and the ballet-master, and during the last three days the houris had been almost da... ...ures with the kindness of the beautiful Madame de Selinville. He, whom the Mistresses Walsingham treated as a mere clumsy boy, was promoted by her man...

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... apparel. Catherine arranged, as a welcome to her husband, a mag- nificent ballet, in which six beautiful young girls were to recite a poem in his hon... ...gneraie; they were willing enough to accept the lands and castles of their mistresses,—witness the Prince de Conde, who accepted the estate of Saint-V... ...which court merchants were often involved in the disgrace and overthrow of mistresses. His caution led to his good luck. He maintained an attitude of ... ...ise, Blois, Chenonceaux, Chaumont, Plessis-les-T ours, all those which the mistresses of kings, financiers, and nobles built at V eretz, Azay-le-Ridea... ...esent staircase of the museum was built in what was formerly the salle des ballets. The ballet of those days was a sort of dramatic entertainment perf... ...ted noble frescos, sang ro- mances, loved queens, delighted kings, devised ballets and fetes, and ruled all policies. The horrible art of poisoning re... ...ds and lovers, and all the men ask help against their unfaithful wives and mistresses, he who traffics on the future as on the past, receiving pay wit...

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...e owed his suc- cess to his good looks, to the court he paid to the King’s mistresses, to his skilfulness at play, and to a lucky stroke of fortune. T... ..., than to remain some days in Paris, as did the other young men with their mistresses. I went at once to the King, who had a numerous company around h... ... way at the Court. He joined in all the King’s parties, at the time of his mistresses. Similarity of tastes attached Langlee to Monsieur, but he never... ... the conduct the King had adopted towards his Queen, with re- spect to his mistresses, even allowing the latter to accom- pany him in his journeys—the... ...ity, and of sweet recollections of his early years, his grace at fetes and ballets, his splendid gallantries, wished that the King, in imitation of th... ...hed that the King, in imitation of the deceased monarch, should dance in a ballet. It was a little too early to think of this. This plea- sure seemed ... ... were admitted simply for the purpose of adding strength and beauty to the ballet, by the grace of their faces and the el- egance of their movements, ... ...t of the King or elsewhere, and declared that his Majesty would dance in a ballet. Everything was soon ready for the execution. It was not so with the... ...sk M. le Duc d’Orleans to allow his son, who danced very well, to join the ballet company! The Regent, always easy, still enamoured of Law, and, to sp...

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...rbid. 68 Or studie where to meete some Mistresse fine, 69 When Mistresses from common sense are hid. 70 Or hauing sworne too hard a ... ... the reason of white 412 and redde. 413 Brag. Is there not a ballet Boy, of the King and the 414 Begger? 415 Boy. The worl... ...the 414 Begger? 415 Boy. The world was very guilty of such a Ballet some 416 three ages since, but I thinke now ’tis not to be foun... ... Dum. Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. 1619 Ber. Your mistresses dare neuer come in raine, 1620 For feare their colours shoul... ...e is mine as sure as barke on tree. 2207 Boyet. Madam, and prettie mistresses giue eare, 2208 Immediately they will againe be heere 2209 ...

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...ious li- quors, Giroudeau pointed out to Philippe a plump and agile little ballet-girl whom he called Florentine, whose good graces and affection, tog... ...ig stom- ach, a face like a ploughman, and a nose like a potato, can get a ballet-girl, I ought to be the lover of the first actress in Paris. Where d... ...s, we fre- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become directors of a theatre out ... ...cash- ier, the hero of heroes, was in love with Mariette, the cel- ebrated ballet-dancer at the Porte-Saint-Martin. The news was a thunder-clap to the... ...m a good place, and there he is, leading the life of a Sardanapalus with a ballet-girl, and guzzling the funds of his journal; that costs the mother a... ...illery, the Comte de Soulanges. Insatiable in his wants, and backed by the mistresses of influential men, Philippe now solicited the honor of being on...

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... you know, madame, how Master Hulot and I first made acquaintance? —At our mistresses’, madame.” “Oh, monsieur!” “Y es, madame, at our mistresses’,” C... ...t last Adeline perceived that the Pactolus poured out be- fore the Baron’s mistresses had its source in her pocket. In eight years he had dissipated a... ...My dear,” said Adeline with a final effort, “if you posi- tively must have mistresses, why do you not seek them, like Crevel, among women who are less... ... me one evening at supper that when he was a young man he always had three mistresses on hand that he might not be left high and dry—the one he was gi... ... stay with me.—Look here, I under- stand all about it; you shall have your mistresses; pretty ones too, like that little Marneffe woman who wants to s... ...omen. She turned sharply round to return to Lisbeth at the tea-table. This ballet-dancer’s pir- ouette, whisking her skirts, by which she had overthro... ... in sorrows, he has neglected her for prostitutes, for street-hussies, for ballet- girls, actresses—Cadine, Josepha, Marneffe!—And that is the brother... ...n Betty comes up from the third cellar at the touch of a fairy’s wand in a ballet-extravaganza. After finishing what he had to do at the Courts, Victo...

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...maids of great ladies are, for after they are married they imi- tate their mistresses, Madame Moreau imported from Paris all the new fashions. She wor... ...im to my sister, where he would see a pretty sort of society!—ac- tresses, ballet-dancers, elegant young fops, spendthrifts who are wasting their fort... ...lowed her to the rue Pastourel, where he found that the future star of the ballet was the daughter of a portress. T wo weeks later, the mother and dau... ...20 he had the plea- sure of seeing Florentine dance her first “pas” in the ballet of a melodrama entitled “The Ruins of Babylon.” Florentine was then ...

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...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...ing his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet. It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now... ...h he has sold you. Innocent, by —! Y ou’re as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. Don’t think to frighten me as you ... ... several young men of the regiment, and a number of ladies of the corps de ballet, and old Mac, who was at home with people of all ages and ranks, and... ...a lady’s man; that is, men asked him to dine rather at the houses of their mistresses than of their moth- ers. There can scarcely be a life lower, per...

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... had rendered formi- dable to young chambermaids, and even sometimes their mistresses, had never dreamed, even in moments of delirium, of half the amo... ... these times of lax morality they had no more delicacy with respect to the mistresses; and that the latter almost always left them valu- able and dura... ...n duty at the Louvre, and that he might repair at once to his post. 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON O N THE MORROW, nothing was talked of in Paris but t... ...which their Majesties were to dance the famous La Merlaison—the fa- vorite ballet of the king. Eight days had been occupied in preparations at the Hot... ...ied with.” “Do so, madame, do so, and that at once; for within an hour the ballet will commence.” The queen bent in token of submission, and followed ... ... and his Highness Monsieur with the queen. They took their places, and the ballet began. The king danced facing the queen, and every time he passed by... ...t ascertain the number. A cold sweat covered the brow of the cardinal. The ballet lasted an hour, and had sixteen entrees. The bal- let ended amid the... ...of either the one or the other. He would have inquired after them of their mistresses, but he was neither acquainted with Porthos’s nor Aramis’s, and ...

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...her, she recommended Franz to take the next best, if he wished to view the ballet, and pointed to the one behind her own chair. Albert was soon deeply... ...d to his previous survey of the house and company. The curtain rose on the ballet, which was one of those excellent specimens of the Italian school, a... ...rly productions of grace, method, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumer- ary, are all... ...that but one mind, one act of volition, influ- enced the moving mass — the ballet was called “Poliska.” However much the ballet might have claimed his... ...es might be trusted, enjoying soft repose and bright celestial dreams. The ballet at length came to a close, and the cur- tain fell amid the loud, una... ...n Arabian fortress, horses that cost six thousand francs apiece, and Greek mistresses.” “Have you seen the Greek mistress?” “I have both seen and hear... ...ng better than that,” said Monte Cristo; “I have a slave. You procure your mistresses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Varietes; I purchased min...

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...n Miss Morgiana existed in all Mayfair— no, not among the most fashionable mistresses of the fashion- able valets who frequented the “Bootjack.” She b... ...orio of “Purgatorio,” which made such an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows such an outra... ...essors conduct their academies on very opposite principles. Baroski writes ballet music; Thrum, on the contrary, says “he cannot but deplore the dange...

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...at- ter, on the plea that it would cause real pain to their wives or their mistresses. “Say that his bill is worth nothing, and prove it if you can, b... ....” Accordingly, this man of no principle, who six years earlier had kept a ballet-girl, and who now, thanks to his position, made himself a seraglio w... ... as a rail. I saw her in the T uileries, and I much prefer Percilliee, the ballet-mistress, Castaing’s victim.” Phellion. “What has an actress to do w...

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...nkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in sh... ...ference. Napoleon himself could only dine once, and he could not have more mistresses than a house student at the Capuchins. Happiness, old man, de- p... ...cape, or hands it over to their families if they leave a will, or to their mistresses when they draw upon him for their benefit.” “Their mistresses! Y...

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...e end. At times he thought of nothing but the magnificent spectacle of the ballet in the great Inferno scene in the fifth act; sometimes the sight of ... ...eterogeneous first-night elements filled the boxes—jour- nalists and their mistresses, lorettes and their lovers, a sprin- kling of the determined pla... ...the management anything, for the chorus and the orchestra and the corps de ballet are to take them whether they like it or not; but your paper is so c... ...opies, and only takes nine for the manager and box office-keeper and their mistresses, and for the three lessees of the theatre. Every one of the Boul... ...nsisted in a few thousand francs scraped to- gether with difficulty by the mistresses of the pair. Out of this fund they allowed each other a fairly h...

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...hole collection of pretty costume plates into the mysteries of the “Ussian Ballet” and the works of Mousso’gski and “Imsky Ko’zakof.” The bishop liked... ...ord Col- lege; she had been making enquiries; Daphne described some of the mistresses at her new school. The feeling that some- thing was expected had...

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...ter to de- scribe the emotions of Mrs. Firkin, did not the passions of her mistresses occupy our genteeler muse. When Mrs. Bute Crawley, numbed with m... ...x at old Dives’s sale,” Pincher says, handing it round, “one of Louis XV’s mistresses—pretty thing, is it not?—sweet miniature,” and they talk of the ... ...n full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. And when the time for the ballet came (in which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or... ...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...ing his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet. It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now... ...h he has sold you. Innocent, by —! Y ou’re as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. Don’t think to frighten me as you ... ... several young men of the regiment, and a number of ladies of the corps de ballet, and old Mac, who was at home with people of all ages and ranks, and... ...a lady’s man; that is, men asked him to dine rather at the houses of their mistresses than of their moth- ers. There can scarcely be a life lower, per...

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... His house was sold, his servants sent away, A Jew took one of his two mistresses, A priest the other — at least so they say: I ask’d the ... ...scratching. Where is Lord This? And where my Lady That? The Honourable Mistresses and Misses? Some laid aside like an old Opera hat, Marri... ...requites. Youth fades, and leaves our days no longer sunny; We tire of mistresses and parasites; But oh, ambrosial cash! Ah! who would lose th... ...oting indispensable; He danced without theatrical pretence, Not like a ballet master in the van Of his drill’d nymphs, but like a gentleman. B...

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...mi, Gudrun was Ruth, the Contessa was Orpah. The idea was to make a little ballet, in the style of the Russian Ballet of Pavlova and Nijinsky. The Con... ... do, you know, with the Pussums, is to pay them.’ ‘And the right thing for mistresses: keep them. And the right thing for wives: live under the same r... ...h a tragedy in Shortlands, the high home of the district! One of the young mistresses, persisting in dancing on the cabin roof of the launch, wilful y... ...rn lover—amant en titre. If as somebody says all women are either wives or mistresses, then Gudrun is a mistress.’ ‘And all men either lovers or husba... ..., meeting her slow, calm eyes. And she knew that the Pussum was one of his mistresses—and he knew she knew. She looked round, and called for the waite...

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... to cause a split in his trousers, sprinkled himself with eau- *One of the mistresses of Louis XIV. of France. In 1680 she wrote a book called Reflexi... ...mostly middle-aged bachelors and old men who are accustomed to seek in the ballet and similar frivolities a further spur to their waning passions. Hav... ...arned to portray. Next, his delight led him gracefully to execute a hop in ballet fashion, so that the wardrobe trembled and a bottle of eau-de-Cologn... ..., he began once more to dream of such allurements as theatre-going and the ballet girl after whom he had for some time past been dangling. Gradually d...

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...ne with a laugh. By this means refractory parents are made to pay, or rich mistresses who might drive a hard bar- gain, but who, face to face with fla... ...tering La Force, a prison situated between the Rue Payenne and the Rue des Ballets, where he was placed in solitary confinement. The Abbe Carlos Herre... ...illing a man than a laborer does of drinking. “Has he been able to see his mistresses?” he wondered. “Has my aunt succeeded in catching those damned f... ...rom a Courtesan’s Life ers, the scarecrows of society, are adored by their mistresses. It is this female devotion, squatting faithfully at the prison ...

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...t. Then in a concluding speech he demanded—where were the premiums for the mistresses, who, he was quite sure, deserved them quite as much or more tha... ...us. The dancing-mistress, French, of course, had trained them, it was more ballet than quadrille, and they looked uncommonly pretty. Uncle William gra...

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...at all, and consequently they lost the satirical man, and were called ‘the ballet-dancers’ by Adela which thorny scoff her sisters per- mitted to pass... ...ng!” he said, directing a glance at the maids who were ranged behind their mistresses. “‘Hem! we must look pleased: we mustn’t mind their music, if th... ...nt of honour.” “I should like to believe that all men are as just to their mistresses,” Lady Charlotte sighed, mock-earnestly. Presently Emilia touche... ..., you must yourself speak to them, and tell them that we, their master and mistresses, do not regard them as thieves.” Out of this there came a quarre...

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...ich this folly exposed her. I was so absolutely in the power of both these mistresses, that when in the presence of either, I never thought of her who... ...to find amusements, treasures, and adventures; friends ready to serve, and mistresses eager to please me; I had but to show myself, and the whole uni-... ...i. Before I began the work I took time to consider of my plan. In a heroic ballet I proposed three different subjects, in three acts, detached from ea... ...ely fond of music. All these gentlemen had their wives, female friends, or mistresses: the latter were most of them women of talents, at whose apartme... ...yed with women as with so many pretty children. He amused himself with the mistresses of his friends, but I never knew him to have one of his own, nor...

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...fourth word, the bride I led Changed to an Opera dancer. 110 VIII A young ballet-beauty, who perked in her place, A darling of pink and spangles; One... ...lvulus torn from the hedge, And trailing the highway over, The dreamy-eyed mistresses circled the sedge, And called for a lover, a lover! XXI I sank, ...

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...s. If I read fiction, let it be fiction; airier than hard fact. If I see a ballet, my troop of short skirts must not go stepping like pavement policem... ...eir T asso. The little dog was the growl of a silken ball in a basket. His mistresses excused him, because of his being unused to the appearance of an...

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...ves great airs, carrying their big cotton umbrellas as they had seen their mistresses carry their parasols, and haggling in supercilious fashion with ... ...apers and had pasted up fig- ures cut out from the posters of some Kiralfy ballet, very gaudy. By the one window, chittering all day in its little gil...

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...music what Paganini is on the violin, Liszt on the piano, T aglioni in the ballet, and what the famous Garat was; at any rate he recalls that great si... ...t was only to make him one of those elegant footmen without wages whom the mistresses of households 259 Beatrix employ to do errands, when servants a...

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... can be considered correct when you give her no legs? Y ou will see at the ballet that you are in error about women at present, 180 Ordeal of Richard... ...rch for pleasure at the expense of discomfort, as frantic lovers woo their mistresses to partake the shelter of a but and batten on a crust, Adrian de... ... is to be observed be- tween the Guardsman class, and that of the corps de ballet: they both live by the strength of their legs, where also their wits...

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...’s bet?” The allusion was to a black incident con- cerning a young Italian ballet girl who had been carried off by an Austrian officer, under the pret... ...and standing together they swayed like two im- perfectly jolly fellows, or ballet bandits, each plucking at the other, until at last the maddening lau... ... in, a rapture of passion; called it his wife, his naked wife; the best of mistresses, who spoke only when he charged her to speak; raved that she was...

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...at in the seclusion of the Bower he poked out his wooden leg, in the stage-ballet manner, and executed a taunting or triumphant pirouette on the genui... ...ame. So with the lighted shops, and speculations whether their masters and mistresses taking tea in a perspective of back- parlour—not so far within b...

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...nt when he needs a man no longer. Like one of the grotesque figures in the ballet in Gustave, he was a marquis behind, a boor in front. And this high-... ...d ‘Frederick the Great,’ and in Frederick’s time.” “Did Marcel compose any ballets?” inquired Finot. “Yes, something in the style of Les Quatre Elemen... ...not very expen- sive. Your Monna Lisa is sweet, but inane as music for the ballet; I give you warning.’ “Rastignac made this last remark in a way whic... ...n servant in livery who brought three pairs of fur-lined overshoes for his mistresses. “Never were two sisters more unlike than Isaure and Malvina. Ma...

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...ally by wealthy admirers of feminine charms revealed by the costume of the ballet. Gaudissart and Company, who, be it said, made their for- tune, hit ... ...ld adapt or even compose a little music upon occasion, was a necessity for ballets and pantomimes; but the last management had so long been bankrupt, ... ...es, lest they should see the offences that needs must come when a corps de ballet is blended with actors and actresses, one of the most trying combina... ...ned in consideration and kindly treatment. It was after the success of the ballet with which a run of success began for the Gaudissart Company that th... ...e his friend in the condition to which he had been brought by the Camusots—mistresses and servants. He knew Pons so well; he feared lest some cruel, s... ...est, most commonplace fashion, in Strasbourg brasseries, in the company of ballet-girls of the Strasbourg theatres, and little Alsaciennes who had not... ... legacy, she would sleep sound on old Pons’ will, like the other ser- vant-mistresses whose annuities had aroused such envy in the Marais. Her thought... ...ry to see it.—Now, for my own part, I should have thought that you had had mistresses by the dozen—dancers, actresses, and duchesses, for you went out...

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.... Hith- erto she had remained quite quiet with her mandolin; but, when her mistresses had ceased, they commanded her to per- form some pleasant little... ...ied, “from such words, even from such thoughts; for otherwise you and your mistresses will be lost.”— “ Who, then, are you,” he asked in defiance, “wh... ... On the French theatre, likewise, I had seen from my youth upwards, if not ballets, yet pas seuls and pas de deux, and had noticed in them various str...

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...aph in the papers, put between notes on a festivity and on the smiles of a ballet-dancer; he heard the francs counted down by the prefect of police to... ... dreams upon a pedestal, weave crowns for his head, and have com- plaisant mistresses. I myself would often be a general, nay, emperor; I have been a ... ...rret, and by a sort of mirage or calenture I was surrounded by captivating mistresses. I drove through the streets of Paris, lolling on the soft cushi...

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...been seen in a monastry in India; a third assured me that he had married a ballet girl in Milan; and someone else was positive that he had taken to dr... ...erwards, she often saw them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prodigious diamonds, of noble gam ...

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...rt?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po- etical strain. ‘Then you will, ... ...he might have been taken for an actress all ready for the first scene in a ballet, and only waiting for the drop curtain to go up. ‘Place chairs.’ The... ...ge and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘the little ballet interlude. V ery good, go on. A little this way , if you please, Mr ... ..., and the maiden stood on one leg upon his other knee; thus concluding the ballet, and leaving the spectators in a state of pleasing uncertainty, whet... ... and do everything a little, but not much; who had been some- times in the ballet, and sometimes in the chorus, at every theatre in London; who was al... ...dow that he had seen before. There were the same unimpeachable masters and mistresses in want of virtuous servants, and the same virtuous servants in ... ...vants, and the same virtuous servants in want of unimpeachable masters and mistresses, and the same magnificent estates for the investment of capital,...

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...le thing that so large a proportion of British secondary schoolmasters and mistresses are unmarried. The normal condition of a healthy adult is marria... ... de Medici, but he can cram his mind with the lore of how “nobs” run after ballet girls, and why Lady X locked the door. One can only plead here, as e...

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... be, big or little, passionate or passionless, lasting or passing (he kept a ballet girl himself, though he was the father of a family, so he was leni... ... all the Russian entertainments the prince liked best French ac tresses and ballet dancers and white seal champagne. Vronsky was used to princes, but... ... Sunday. Stepan Arkadyevitch went to the Grand Theater to a rehearsal of the ballet, and gave Masha Tchibisova, a pretty dancing girl whom he had just... ...e gift of the necklace he wanted to arrange with her about meeting after the ballet. After explaining that he could not come at the beginning of the b... ...nial to him, but he was going out, he said, to a soir´ ee, in reality to the ballet. Levin only had time to tell him he was happy, and that he loved h... ...nt Krivtsov was considered a hopeless case by every one, and yet he kept two mistresses. Petrovsky had run through five millions, and still lived in ju...

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...both with merry countenances. The count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew himself up,... ...t together.” And Natasha rose and went out of the room on tip- toe, like a ballet dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When R... ...e was best. Having lifted her head and let her arms droop life- lessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes... ...: “Louis XIV was a very proud and self-confident man; he had such and such mistresses and such and such min- isters and he ruled France badly. His des... ...ruled France badly. And they had such and such favorites and such and such mistresses. Moreover, certain men wrote some books at that time. At the end... ...rive eastward explained by the activity of Louis XIV , XV , and XVI, their mistresses and ministers, and by the lives of Napoleon, Rousseau, Diderot, ...