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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... ...o such as desired re- pose or refreshment. Splendid paintings by the first masters were ranged against the walls, intermingled with magnificent trophi... ...le; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, as the Orientalists say, — our masters in everything, — those favored creatures who have formed for themse... ...ho assume the names of lands and properties they never in their lives were masters of?” “But,” said Franz, “the Corsican bandits that were among the c... ...to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot. It was easy to discover that the delicate c...

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...resident‘ of this university about it. I thought it was strange because my masters‘ thesis had over 200 bibliographical citations in my second chapte... ... huge buildings housed innumerable activities that the child could pursue: ballet, sports, astronomy, physics or chemistry, music composition and pe...

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...ted purely from their conscious awareness and nowhere else. That they are the masters of their own brains, their own awareness. This not so. ... ...ned. What surprise is it that these slaves did not love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as ... ...? As an ethnic tribe of slaves, building huge stone pyramids for their slave masters… for over 600 years; doomed to serve a, remote, cruel, unseen d... ...a land of the most slavish people on Earth. They have knuckled under to their masters and oppressors more slavishly than any other Western country o... ... had become non-violent. They were a culture of slaves, serfs serving foreign masters for over 1,000 years. The same facts are true for almost ever... ...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. …... ...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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...al empires). In this, they proved themselves to be the proper heirs of their former masters: murderous, suborned, Byzantine and nearsighted. In... ...lised manic defenses: Megalomania - our missiles are more powerful than yours, our ballet is more elegant than yours; Paranoia - the West is out t...

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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... ...d into guilds by the Church. In this way prices were maintained. Also, the masters were not at the mercy of their workmen, and did not obey their whim... ...e him at Chantilly; but he does not wish to move without an order from his masters. Being the uncle of Monseigneur, he will not leave him in the lurch... ...rred. This name descended to the son, and for a similar reason. Absolutely masters of Francois II., whom his wife ruled through their mutual and exces... ... passion, these two great Lorrain princes, the duke and the cardinal, were masters of France, and had no other enemy at court than Catherine dé Medici... ...imself, trained in the great school of which Catherine and the Guises were masters,—by whose lessons he had profited but too well. At this moment the ... ...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...

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...s, prints and drawing-paper. At school, the fu- ture colorist sketched his masters, drew his comrades, 25 Balzac charcoaled the dormitories, and show... ...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... ... never enough; two hundred and fifty francs. But I study the manner of the masters and learn a great deal; I found out the secrets of their method. Th... ...as he was to work for a living, he laid it aside to make copies of the old masters for the dealers; thus he penetrated the secrets of their processes,... ...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... ...sehold of the old bachelor was made up of five persons, three of whom were masters, and the ex- penses advanced to about eight thousand francs a year....

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... of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And there is the cathedral to boot: scene like: all grim, and swart... ...gigantic, and almost blots out an actor. They usually play a comedy, and a ballet. The comic man in the comedy I saw one summer night, is a waiter in ... ...ld be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the Bride, in the very hour of her nupt... ...of a pas de deux; and the going off with a bound!—I shall never see a real ballet, with a composed countenance again. I went, another night, to see th... ...as anybody may, who chooses to think about the matter) that few very great masters can possibly have painted, in the compass of their lives, one half ... ...by long avenues of trees. In the splendid theatre of La Scala, there was a ballet of action performed after the opera, under the title of Prometheus: ...

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...a day is their hire. Thus they have money, food, shelter, clothing, and, I was about to write, their liberty. The French are certainly a good- natured... ...t essential to the French existence. With a people incurably idle, dispirited by what can only be called endemic pestilence, and inflamed with ill-fee... ...not very often join in the performance, but stood disengaged at the back part of the stage, and looked (in Ridi, necklace, and dressed hair) for all t... ...ng and ogling, and the strange rhythmic gestures, and strange, rapturous, frenzied faces with which the best of the male dancers held us spellbound th... ...land audience roared with laughter and applause. This filled up the mea- sure for the rival company, and they forgot themselves and decency. After eac... ...ach act or figure of the ballet, the per- formers pause a moment standing, and the next is intro- duced by the clapping of hands in triplets. Not unti... ...ave seen a tenor in Europe stare with the same blank dignity into a hissing theatre; but presently, to my surprise, they sobered down, gave up the uns...

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... had become infatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompanied her to Paris. I could not find ou... ...m acute. He was catho- lic. He had not only a true appreciation of the old masters, but sympathy with the moderns. He was quick to discover talent, an... ...s. “ Y ou should have lived at a time when women were chattels and men the masters of slaves,” I said. 157 Somerset Maugham “It just happens that I a... ...me the clumsiness of his tech- nique. Accustomed to the drawing of the old masters, and convinced that Ingres was the greatest draughtsman of recent t... ...ointed that I cannot report any ex- travagances in his opinions on the old masters. There is so much in his character which is strange that I feel it ... ...d down on the quay. One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar ro...

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...though she no more comprehended sensibility than she did Algebra, gave all masters and teachers particular or- 9 Thackeray ders to treat Miss Sedley ... ...the dull and world-corrupted person who rules him?)—if, I say, parents and masters would leave their chil- dren alone a little more, small harm would ... ...own. The faithful chambers seem, as it were, to mourn the absence of their masters. The turkey carpet has rolled itself up, and retired sulkily under ... ...ationship existed between the Hall and Rectory domestics, as between their masters; and through these channels each family was perfectly well acquaint... ...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...

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... This consisted of a large, long room at opposite ends of which two under -masters con- ducted the second and third forms, and of a smaller one, leadi... ... engaged in business were made to feel the degradation of their state. The masters had no patience with modern ideas of education, which they read of ... ...s. Neither Ger - man nor chemistry was taught, and French only by the form-masters; they could keep order bet- ter than a foreigner, and, since they k... ...e to waste a great deal of time in drawing the Andes or the Apennines. The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were ordained and unmarried; if ... ...he retired he was rewarded with a much better living than any of the under-masters could hope for, and an honorary Canonry . But a year before Philip ... ... them by her garrulous oddities. Once a woman came who was a member of the ballet at a famous music-hall. She looked fifty , but gave her age as twent...

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...he footman’s basso continuo from his perch behind; they saw that they were masters of the situation, and took advantage of their few minutes’ freedom ... ...n eye on Peyrade, which amused Louis XVIII. Corentin and Peyrade were then masters of the position. Contenson, long attached to Peyrade, was still at ... ...chosen a first-class carriage and splendid horses from one of the best job-masters. For the last month all had gone well with him; he had dined with t... ...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...

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...the utmost bourne of flying flavour (a dell in infinite nether), and still masters of themselves and at home. Such a wine, in its capturing permeation... ...masks! Captain Dartrey Fenellan has shown me, and says, the French are our masters at it.’ He bowed constrainedly to mademoiselle. ‘You box, M. Skepse... ...r mothers up to the very oldest date, respectfully curtain; their accepted masters are chival- rous to them, deploring their need at times for the doc... ...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...

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...ts. He has nothing in the world that I know of but a dozen or two of early masters and a more or less pert little daughter.” “The early masters are no... ...rves him right if you have,” said Henrietta while the curtain rose for the ballet. Isabel saw no more of her attributive victim for the next twenty-fo... ... he would finish it himself; for the last year or two, at the convent, the masters that teach the tall girls are so very dear. Papa’s not rich, and I ...

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...e strongly interested in the state of the market and the bargains of their masters; and a great confusion of tongues, both brute and human. Mr Pinch r... ...t in his friend’s character; as he made known to Mr Pinch in a neat little ballet of action, spontaneously invented for the purpose. ‘I’ll let ‘em kno... ... to the blessings of our form of government, as this Help is. There are no masters here.’ ‘All “owners,” are they?’ said Martin. Mr Jefferson Brick fo... ...least one tiny bird in a tiny bird-cage, twittering and hopping his little ballet of despair, and knocking his head against the roof; while one unhapp...

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...tions -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o...

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...pon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- ... ...yed this knowledge and left them to be re-discovered. CAVE-DWELLERS WHO BECAME MASTERS OF THE WORLD. In the region of Arabia we find the earliest trac... ...nio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, and the countries of Western As... ...f unrivalled proportions grew into existence and which continued in undisputed mastership of the sea until near the end of the i4th century when in a ... ... was able to arrest their progress, and they moved westward, making themselves masters of Italy, Greece and Sicily. At first heathens, they afterwards... ...to display the astonishingly variety of their movements. "To this grand female ballet succeeded one performed by fifteen men. Some of them were old; b...

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...out having any assistants, can’ t you? Isn’ t it done every day by all the masters about? I’ve no patience with you.’ ‘Haven’ t you!’ said Squeers, st... ...rt?’ ‘Not for twenty thousand hemispheres populated with— with—with little ballet-dancers,’ replied Mantalini in a po- etical strain. ‘Then you will, ... ...e really beneath the comprehen- sion of those who have not made themselves masters, as I have, of the intricate and arduous study of politics; I would... ...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... ...s in the window that he had seen before. There were the same unimpeachable masters and mistresses in want of virtuous servants, and the same virtuous ... ...virtuous servants, and the same virtuous servants in want of unimpeachable masters and mistresses, and the same magnificent estates for the investment...

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... with a photographic memory. He was easily accepted at Harvard and obtained a Masters in Political Science. From there it was a short step to Washin... ... through the majestic gardens. The Koi fish huddled, and swam like a colorful ballet. A few of them stretched their bodies out of the water, as if t... ...eyes of all terrorists. Soule's men arrived one at a time. They were each masters of disguises. Their clothes, 355 J.Cross/Artemis baseball...

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...s in all sorts of liveries, bringing and carrying mes- sages between their masters and M. de T reville. In the ante- chamber, upon long circular bench... ...en ruined by it. Be assured that I am devoted to both these all-power- ful masters, and that my earnest endeavors have no other aim than the service o... ...fidelity. And now that we are acquainted, superficially at least, with the masters and the valets, let us pass on to the dwellings occupied by each of... ...bleu,” said Athos, as soon as they were again in mo- tion, “reduced to two masters and Grimaud and Planchet! Morbleu! I won’t be their dupe, I will an... ...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...

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...wo or three hundred horsemen, mostly armed, and well appointed, with their masters’ badges on their sleeves,— falcon and fetterlock, dun cow, bear and... ...long rides in the environs, minstrelsy in the gardens, and once a graceful ballet of the King’s own com- position; and the evenings, sometimes in-door... ...ll the variety to be hoped for. By and by Barbe brought a message that her masters re- quested the ladies’ presence at the meal, a dinner, in fact, se... ...more accessible were not Alsatian, but Lorrainers, and to exasperate their masters by raids would bring fresh danger. Indeed, the two nearest castles ... ... danger. Indeed, the two nearest castles were on Lorraine territory; their masters had not a much better reputation than the Balchenburgs, and, with t... ...aid good old Barbe, divided between pity for her guests and loyalty to her masters. ‘If it is the Duke, he will free you, Elleen,’ said Jean weep- ing...

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...an, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still more profound are the contradictions to be seen in the autho... ...ing bygone peasants who had ploughed, worked at handicrafts, cheated their masters, fetched, carried, and got drunk (though SOME of them may have beha... ...lers? Are you, by this time, in gaol, or have you taken service with other masters for the tillage of their lands? ‘Eremei Kariakin, Nikita Volokita a... ...y when a boy had attained its ranks did Alexander demand of him what other masters indiscreetly require of mere infants—namely the superior frame of m... ...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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...schi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining monste... ...ked. It happened that Stidmann—who, with the help of these dis- tinguished masters of the goldsmiths’ art, was raising French work to the perfection i... ...s if by magic. If every servant were obliged to show his pass-book, and if masters were required to state in it the cause of his dismissal, this would... ...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... ...ad in the end fallen a prey to the absorbing love which, once in her life, masters a woman’s heart. Wenceslas was its object, and, a failure as an art...

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...e, And botching, patching, leaving still behind Something of which its masters are afraid, States to be curb’d and thoughts to be confined, ... ...nd, Deeming the chain it wears even men may fit, Eutropius of its many masters,— blind To worth as freedom, wisdom as to wit, Fearless — b... ... A little smuggling, and some piracy, Left him, at last, the sole of many masters Of an ill gotten million of piastres. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...divine: He served—but served Polycrates— A tyrant; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The ty... ...know what slavery is, and our disasters May teach us better to behave when masters. ’ ‘Would we were masters now, if but to try Their present ... ...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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...ar from a country town, for the convenience of daily governess, tutor, and masters. She her- self had grown up on the old system which made education ... ...us. The dancing-mistress, French, of course, had trained them, it was more ballet than quadrille, and they looked uncommonly pretty. Uncle William gra... ... be going off with her father to strange countries, away from lessons, and masters, and towns. It would be almost as good as Leila on the island. As t...

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...els that the surprise of the news brought by Raoul was most sensibly felt. In fact, the king and the court at Blois, that is to say, a hundred horseme... ...” “Then it will please me to reply, monsieur, that I do not recognize any one here, that I know no one here but the general, and that it is to him alo... ...he Gascon was to inclose his treasure, for the present, under locks so solid that no wrist could break them, and so complicated that no master-key cou... ...he richest among you.” “That is true,” cried they in chorus. “Gentlemen,” said D’Artagnan, “then, this is the last or- der. The treaty of commerce has... ...s country-house, followed by his principal clerk, who carried an enormous portfolio full of papers to be examined, and others waiting for signa- ture.... ...courtiers as a star whose light might some day be- come the focus of all favor and power. And yet Louis XIV ., a few years previously, had not even co...

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... of Chicksey , V eneering, and Stobbles. Chicksey and Stobbles, his former masters, had both 35 Charles Dickens become absorbed in Veneering, once th... ...er men’s grooms; seeming somehow to fall short of the groom point as their masters fell short of the gentleman point. Young Fledgeby was none of these... ...ld settle, pursue the downward fortunes of those enervated and cor- rupted masters of the world who were by this time on their last legs. If Wegg had ... ...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... ...d in his own family as if he had been in the employment of some of the Old Masters, undertook to grill the fowls. Indeed, ex- cept in respect of stari... ...ed as to what he knew or suspected, should be severely handled by them his masters, and should be kept in a state of abject moral bond- age and slaver...

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...se of power is negative. In this type of power a person tries to force others to do what he or she wants them to do. Young children are often master... ...698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzantines from their garrisons in Carthage and become master... ...esires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancient Hindus. Drs. Master... ... type of work that one does, but often it revolves around academic interests, so the biological researcher or the carpenter with interests in ballet... ...ltzers of the State Opera, the symphony of strings, the enthusiasm of the conductor and his audience. Then there was the Jerome Robbins modern ballet... ...s Fancy Free. Then there was Anna Pavlova in the Dying Swan and Rudolf Nureyev in Stone Flower. Sounds like many of my peaks were in opera and ballet... ...hey are classic because they exhibit the few times that human endeavor has climbed Olympus. Few modern people have touched the heights of the master...

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... close quarters it’s almost impossible. If it were as on the stage, in the ballet, where if beggars come in, they wear silken rags and tattered lace a... ...arthly gain, of domination-something like a universal serfdom with them as masters-that’s all they stand for. They don’t even believe in God perhaps. ... ...ike that.” “Mother darling,” he would say, “there must be servants and masters, but if so I will be the servant of my servants, the same as they a... ... your duty as monks, for the peasant has God in his heart. (f) Of Masters and Servants, and of whether it is possible for them t...

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... gift was by no means despicable, but Susie was not convinced that callous masters would have been so en thusiastic if Margaret had been as plain and... ...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...

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...udiating religious teaching, and now and then preparing explosions for the masters—no, teach- ers. The various conversations were exceedingly bright a... ...n!” was the General’s verdict. “We fled simultaneously from the concluding ballet,” said Lance. “There had been quite as much as we could bear for ing...

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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,... ...h to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of com- manding both... ...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... ...igin’s upland was across the fields. The hunt servants fell into line. The masters rode together. “Uncle,” Rostov, and Ilagin kept stealthily glancing... ... wants to remain good friends with another despite a quarrel between their masters. And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the state of ... ...ex him and that Napoleon expected him to be frightened, to gratify his new masters promptly pretended to be aston- ished and awe-struck, opened his ey... ...nd was hated by the commune, must be hesitating between the two camps: the masters’ and the serfs’. He noticed this hesitation in Dron’s look and ther...