These were greatly moved,--ils s'agitaient sur leurs bancs,--to borrow a phrase from our neighbours.
They were led cheering into action by the portly Swallowtail, who waved his cap--the non-commissioned officers in the pit, of course, gallantly following their chiefs.

There was a roar of bravos rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest, "Fotheringay! Fotheringay!" and Messrs.

Spavin and Foker giving the view-halloo from their box.

Even Mrs.Pendennis began to wave about her pocket-handkerchief, and little Laura danced, laughed, clapped, and looked up at Pen with wonder.
Hornbull led the beneficiaire forward, amidst bursts of enthusiasm--and she looked so handsome and radiant, with her hair still over her shoulders, that Pen hardly could contain himself for rapture: and he leaned over his mother's chair, and shouted, and hurrayed, and waved his hat.

It was all he could do to keep his secret from Helen, and not say, "Look! That's the woman! Isn't she peerless?
I tell you I love her." But he disguised these feelings under an enormous bellowing and hurraying.
As for Miss Fotheringay and her behaviour, the reader is referred to a former page for an account of that.