text: " The scanty drapery and liberal displays of the figurantes at first startled him a little; but "the beauty of those _peris_ was such as might have enslaved the heart of Ferhad himself;" and he soon learned to view all their _pirouettes_ and _tours-de-force_ with the well-bred nonchalance of a man who had witnessed in his own country exhibitions nearly as singular in their way "though the style of dancing here was of course entirely different from what we see in India