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- I shall not soon forget the expression with which the girl sang… Throwing herself at the same time at the listener’s feet, her features lighted up, as though beseeching for a hearing, and her hands clasping his knee…She moved away, her hand raised, and her head thrown back; while she threw an expression of despair into the last line, and seemed to sob out the words... She presently steps forward, the soft slow music becomes louder and quicker, as the expression becomes more impassioned; the dancer, describing either hope or fear, moves rapidly from side to side, and the whole usually concludes with an imitation of despair. (en)
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