Ways to Be Wicked
“But she wasn’t alone. She’d brought the rest of the girls with her.
And all of them stopped and stared, wide-eyed and silent, at Sylvie, who stood with her hair pulled tightly back, the lovely exotic dress she wore to practice her dancing floating about her calves.
Molly finally spoke. “I told them about the ballet, and the princes and kings.” Her chin was up.
“And you would all like to learn to dance this way?” Sylvie asked them.
She had never before taught a roomful of girls, though she had a...dvised younger students about form, and every now and then wiped away Monsieur-Favre-instigated tears.
“Can ye show us?”
Sylvie looked at those lovely girls, with their round bodies accustomed to very little work at all apart from, perhaps, the sort that took place on a mattress or the sort that took place on the White Lily’s stage. And wondered how they would cope with the pain and discipline, the nuance and complexity— But she needn’t tell them it was difficult, or painful, or that few really excelled at it.MoreLess
And all of them stopped and stared, wide-eyed and silent, at Sylvie, who stood with her hair pulled tightly back, the lovely exotic dress she wore to practice her dancing floating about her calves.
Molly finally spoke. “I told them about the ballet, and the princes and kings.” Her chin was up.
“And you would all like to learn to dance this way?” Sylvie asked them.
She had never before taught a roomful of girls, though she had a...dvised younger students about form, and every now and then wiped away Monsieur-Favre-instigated tears.
“Can ye show us?”
Sylvie looked at those lovely girls, with their round bodies accustomed to very little work at all apart from, perhaps, the sort that took place on a mattress or the sort that took place on the White Lily’s stage. And wondered how they would cope with the pain and discipline, the nuance and complexity— But she needn’t tell them it was difficult, or painful, or that few really excelled at it.MoreLess
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