And when he had finished there came delirium; the beautiful ladies did not even think of wiping away the many affronts they had received, but applauded frantically.

The whole assembly stamped and shouted, and wallowed, distracted, in its ignominy.
"Bravo! bravo!" the little Princess repeated in her shrill voice.

"It's astonishing, astonishing, prodigious!" And Silviane, whose intoxication seemed to have increased since she had been there, in the depths of that fiery furnace, made herself particularly conspicuous by the manner in which she clapped her hands and shouted: "It's he, it's my Legras! I really must kiss him, he's pleased me so much!" Duvillard, now fairly exasperated, wished to take her off by force.

But she clung to the hand-rest of the box, and shouted yet more loudly, though without any show of temper.

It became necessary to parley with her.