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Nana. The Miller’s Daughter. Captain Burle. Death of Olivier Becaille

CHAPTER I
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And the music seemed made for her plebeian voice--shrill, piping music, with reminiscences of Saint-Cloud Fair, wheezings of clarinets and playful trills on the part of the little flutes.
Two numbers were again encored.

The opening waltz, that waltz with the naughty rhythmic beat, had returned and swept the gods with it.

Juno, as a peasant woman, caught Jupiter and his little laundress cleverly and boxed his ears.

Diana, surprising Venus in the act of making an assignation with Mars, made haste to indicate hour and place to Vulcan, who cried, "I've hit on a plan!" The rest of the act did not seem very clear.

The inquiry ended in a final galop after which Jupiter, breathless, streaming with perspiration and minus his crown, declared that the little women of Earth were delicious and that the men were all to blame.
The curtain was falling, when certain voices, rising above the storm of bravos, cried uproariously: "All! All!" Thereupon the curtain rose again; the artistes reappeared hand in hand.
In the middle of the line Nana and Rose Mignon stood side by side, bowing and curtsying.


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