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...ve made something at any rate.” “T rue,” said the valet, nodding. “Anyway, masters are very annoying; and I hope, for Moreau’s sake, that he has made ... ...eeper, “it was high time for Moreau to feather his nest.” “Yes, for if the masters come there,” replied Leger, “they won’t keep their eyes in their po... ...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... ...ays arrive! May his bills of costs and charges be paid in a trice! May our masters to come be like him! May he ever be loved by clerks in other worlds... ...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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... 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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...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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...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... ...school, and fights, and fagging. Before long, he knew the names of all the masters and the principal boys as well as little Rawdon himself. He invited... ...unding pieces sporting and sacred, all of which works were by the greatest masters—and fetched the greatest prices, too, in the bill transactions, in ... ...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... ...d George would not bring toffee into the school and ruin the health of the Masters Bangles, who had everything they wanted at the elegant and abundant... ..., when they had done plunging about the ship and had settled their various masters in the cabins or on the deck, congregated together and began to cha...

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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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... lottery and steals thirty sous a day for her stake, and you will find the masters like her from habit, talk and consult in her hearing upon even crit... ....” 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... ...aucratic gos- sip. In common with servants of modern houses who know their masters’ private affairs thoroughly, they lived at the ministry like spider... ... 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... ...ght; for he has twice saved you from being turned out. However, we are not masters of our own feelings; we 135 Balzac sometimes hate our benefactors.... ...ect as a pistol shot and as brilliant as the flash itself. “What is it, my masters?” he said. The two extortioners continued cold and motionless. Gigo... ... fees and gratuities depend on the last impressions made upon the minds of masters. The news of the union of the two divisions, that of La Billardiere...

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...o. What hast heere? Ballads? 2082 Mop. Pray now buy some: I loue a ballet in print, a 2083 life, for then we are sure they are true. 2084... ... and his Fol-lowers? 3078 Gent.3. Wrackt the same instant of their Masters 3079 death, and in the view of the Shepheard: so that all the ... ...g to see the Queenes Picture. 3182 Come, follow vs: wee’le be thy good Masters. Exeunt. Scaena Tertia. 3184 Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Fl...

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...en you must take care to ask the right ones. As for her languages, she had masters in plenty, but I doubt whether she knew more than a few phrases in ... ...iner, and was useful in a hundred ways. Whilst the Princess was having her masters, Betsinda would sit and watch them; and in this way she picked up a... ...nd nights running at the Imperial Theatre of Crim Tartary, and danced in a ballet there before the King and Queen; in which he looked so beautiful, th...

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...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... ..., flutes, watches, diamond brooches, and a few fine speci- mens of the old masters in the window, and under the words— Balls, Jeweller , you read ... ...essors conduct their academies on very opposite principles. Baroski writes ballet music; Thrum, on the contrary, says “he cannot but deplore the dange... ...igantic, mysterious: he who could thrash everybody, who could beat all the masters; how we longed for him to put in his hand and lick Buckle! He was a... ..., to see the great fight between the second and third cocks. The different masters of the school kept boarding-houses (such as Potky’s, Chip’s, Wicken... ... for that daughter were, she said, astonishing. The money she had spent in masters upon her, the illnesses through which she had nursed her, the ineff...

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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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... 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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...e me now; its great crises will be the teething and nutrition of the young Masters de l’Estorade, and the mischief they do to my shrubs and me. T o em... ...in Paris. Miss Griffith has found out also that Alphonse is in love with a ballet-girl at the Opera. How is it possible to fall in love with legs and ... ...ces there; he applauds the steps of this creature, and then goes out. T wo ballet-girls in a family are, I fancy, more destructive than the plague. My... ...ng, arguing, deaf to reason, insatiable of appetite, obstructing progress, masters in their brute force—” “But,” said I, interrupting my father, “what... ...old, the dream of his youth, had no brains. Oh! my dear, I am worse than a ballet-dancer! If you knew what joy that slighting remark gave me! I have p...

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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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...ld. The T welve T rustees—by virtue of this property have become virtually masters of the world. Because they are the paying power—just as the old Eng... ...a show of dancers— they have been brought from the Capri theatre.” “I hate ballets,” said Graham, shortly. “Always did. That other—. That’s not what I... ... in blue get the upper hand of us, what then? They will only fall to other masters. So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey. I... ...hem revolt, let them win and kill me and my like. Others will arise— other masters. The end will be the same.” “I wonder,” said Graham doggedly. For a...

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...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... ...Brussels before three days were over: when all the movables of his present masters, who would be killed, or fugitives, or prisoners, would lawfully be... ...re are the splendid dinners, the two boys at Eton, the prize governess and masters for the girls, the trip abroad, or to Eastbourne or Worthing, in th... ...t and hostess there, just for all the world as if they had been undisputed masters of three or four thousand a year—and so they were, not in money, bu... ... were a child, but gave you the best of educa- tion and the most expensive masters money could procure. Y es; I’ve nursed five children and buried thr... ... and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, and with accomplishments at Minerva House—w...

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...ould he do something very bold and striking? Should he invite both men and masters to the cathedral, and preach tremendous sermons to them upon these ... ...opinion. Why was the church such a failure? Why had it no grip upon either masters or men amidst this vigorous life of modern industri- alism, and why... ...mp- ing addresses and sermons, rather on the lines of “Fors Clavigera,” to masters and men, in the Cathedral. Only it was so difficult to get either m... ...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...

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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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... 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...