Show OUT T K ic THIS GLOWING LANGUAGE Ouida describes In to her ber novel Under I Two Flags the scene of Cigarettes Cigarette dance 1 The floor Hoor was nas bare bane and well polished the air ir full tull of tobacco smoke scent of ot on oll and anti Wine fumes brandy odors and an overpowering g s 1 and Riotous must a pealed through ugh It I that thet Ken even In its Us clamor kept a o silverY livery ring nag a certain rhythmical cadence caden e Q C were Barracks Barrack camp slang terriers slang stang temple slang siang were Mattered volubly songs were sung rang oy hT bright eyed Parisians P and chorused by the lusty luty lungs of Zoua yes I and Turcos Good humor prevailed though of a wild sort The Mad ad gallop pI lop of the had just flown round the room roem like lightning to the crash and tumult of the most moct ma t headlong music that had ever set spurred heels heebl stamping and gay lette gr heels flying and where the crowd of soldiers and women stood J 4 back to leave her a clear space ce Cigar Cigarette Cigarette Cigarette ette was waa dancing alone She had danced the cancan she had bad danced since sunset n et She had bad danced until antil site eke had tita out cavalrymen who could go CO days in the saddle addle without a 8 sense of fatigue and nail made cry quarter who never neer gave p it by any chance in la the battlefield and nd she was dancing now like a little Bacchante as fresh as if It she he bad had just sprung sprang up from a long lon summers rest reat Dancing as u she would dance only now and then when caprice took her herand herand herand and her wayward vivacity was wu at its height beight 01 Ot the green reeD space apace before a tent full of ef general gt officers on the bare floor of t ofa ta ofa a barracks barrack room under the canvas of or ofa ora ofa a fete day booth or as here bert in m the u music hall hail of a cafe Marshals Marshal had more than one once en aI aIto ea to bribe the famous little Friend of or the Flag to dance for them and aDel had fared but for a set of soldiers war worn weary with toll tell tolland and stiff with wounds she he would do it till they forgot their ills and aDd got ot t intoxicated with it as with champagne champ De DeFor for her gros sros bebes bebell if it th they y were real y in want of it It she would do any p 4 I thing She would flout a general and box bex the ears of ot 4 aide at de and send killing kUling missiles of slang at a dandy a regiment en eft famille and nd refuse point pointblank pointblank blank a Russian grand gi and duke but to mes mea as is she idle was given to callin cailin g A the rough and veteran of the Army Anny of Africa Ci garette win was never however mischievously she would rally or contemptuously she me would rate them when w hen en they deserved it And she was wan dancing for them now her soft short curls all aU fluttering Buttering her herc c heeks all bright with a scarlet flush her eyes as M black as night and full of fire her gay little uniform with Its scarlet and purple making her look like Jike a fuchsia rueh belle tossed by the wind to and II fro tru ever so slightly on its Ita delic ate swaying stem Cigarette danced with the Ole wild grace of ot an Almeh at of ata ofa a of a N autch girl as an untutored and Instinctive tive In tn her as its song II on to a bird as its lightness to a chamois To see Cigarette was like drinking light fiery whose intoxication was gay as mischief and sparkling as themselves All AlJ the warmth of or Africa all aU the wit of f France all aU the of the flag all the caprices of her sex ex were in that bewitching dancing Flashing fluttering circling whirling glancing like Uke a sabres gleam tossing toss Ing like Uke a flowers head bounding like liken n antelope launching launch ing like Uke an arrow darting like a falcon falcoa skimming like a swallow then for an all instant resting re as 5 indolently as u languidly Ing mildly and as 8 voluptuously ly as a water lily my rests resta on the waters breast Cigarette en Bacchante no man could resist reel st I L I I |