We shall have to follow the new course of events or resign ourselves to everlasting obscurity.

The tango is dead." And Desnoyers agreed that truly they were two beings on the other side of the river of life which at one bound had changed its course.

There was no longer any place in the new existence for that poor painter of souls, nor for that hero of a frivolous life who, from five to seven every afternoon, had attained the triumphs most envied by mankind..