Nevertheless, La Faloise had clapped Clarisse Besnus, one of Bordenave's little women, who played Iris in a soft blue dress with a great scarf of the seven colors of the rainbow looped round her waist.
"You know, she draws up her chemise to put that on," he said to Fauchery, loud enough to be heard by those around him.

"We tried the trick this morning.

It was all up under her arms and round the small of her back." But a slight rustling movement ran through the house; Rose Mignon had just come on the stage as Diana.

Now though she had neither the face nor the figure for the part, being thin and dark and of the adorable type of ugliness peculiar to a Parisian street child, she nonetheless appeared charming and as though she were a satire on the personage she represented.

Her song at her entrance on the stage was full of lines quaint enough to make you cry with laughter and of complaints about Mars, who was getting ready to desert her for the companionship of Venus.