The whole had not lasted half a minute.

The applause burst from every part of the house.

I was astonished, and asked my friend the cause of all those bravos.
"We applaud the grace of Dupres and, the divine harmony of his movements.
He is now sixty years of age, and those who saw him forty years ago say that he is always the same." "What! Has he never danced in a different style ?" "He could not have danced in a better one, for his style is perfect, and what can you want above perfection ?" "Nothing, unless it be a relative perfection." "But here it is absolute.

Dupres always does the same thing, and everyday we fancy we see it for the first time.

Such is the power of the good and beautiful, of the true and sublime, which speak to the soul.