stalls
clapped
their
hands and
roared
“bravo!”
Then one
man stood
alone at
one corner
of the
stage. The
cymbals
and
trumpets
struck up
more
loudly in
the
orchestra,
and this
man began
leaping
very high
in the air
and
rapidly
waving his
legs.
(This was
Duport,
who earned
sixty
thousand a
year by
this
accomplishment.)
Every one
in the
boxes and
in the
stalls
began
clapping
and
shouting
with all
their
might, and
the man