It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement. Suddenly the dressing-room of La Sorelli, one of the principal dancers, was invaded by half-a-dozen young ladies of the ballet, who had come up from the stage after `dancing' Polyeucte. They rushed in amid great confusion, some giving vent to forced and unnatural laughter, others to cries of terror.
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