Yet, though those glances and expressions were too subtle, too insufficiently open, the difficulty in no way diminished his high spirits.

Easily and gracefully did he exchange agreeable bandinage with one lady, and then approach another one with the short, mincing steps usually affected by young-old dandies who are fluttering around the fair.

As he turned, not without dexterity, to right and left, he kept one leg slightly dragging behind the other, like a short tail or comma.

This trick the ladies particularly admired.

In short, they not only discovered in him a host of recommendations and attractions, but also began to see in his face a sort of grand, Mars-like, military expression--a thing which, as we know, never fails to please the feminine eye.