text:  One of the _bayaderes_ remained with her leg in a horizontal position the point of her toe almost in her partner's open mouth; another in the terror of the moment had entangled her foot in the ample robe of the emir who now began to run up and down in his extremity of consternation compelling her to dance after him on one leg; in short all the actors in this strange scene expressed so naturally by dumb show their amazement and alarm that the Caliph burst into a loud fit of laughter