![]() ![]() On the walls hung a few engravings, relics of the mother, who had known the glories of the old Opera in the Rue le Peletier portraits of Vestris, Gardel, Dupont, Bigottini. A pier-glass, a sofa, a dressing-table and a cupboard or two provided the necessary furniture. Sorelli's dressing-room was fitted up with official, commonplace elegance. It was little Jammes-the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose-red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders-who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: Sorelli, who wished to be alone for a moment to run through the speech which she was to make to the resigning managers, looked around angrily at the mad and tumultuous crowd. They rushed in amid great confusion, some giving vent to forced and unnatural laughter, others to cries of terror. Suddenly the dressing-room of La Sorelli, one of the principal dancers, was invaded by half-a-dozen young ladies of the ballet, who had come up from the stage after dancing Polyeucte. ![]() Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement. ![]()
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