Monsieur was the only one who did not understand anything about the matter.

The ballet began; the effect was more than beautiful.

When the music, by its bursts of melody, carried away these illustrious dancers, when the simple, untutored pantomime of that period, only the more natural on account of the very indifferent acting of the august actors, had reached its culminating point of triumph, the theater shook with tumultuous applause.
De Guiche shone like a sun, but like a courtly sun, that is resigned to fill a subordinate part.

Disdainful of a success of which Madame showed no acknowledgement, he thought of nothing but boldly regaining the marked preference of the princess.

She, however, did not bestow a single glance upon him.