ballet-dancer

— There Degas was, and behind him, in there, was his studio; and behind him, there in his old age, was his life-work; and with unaging eyes he was, I felt sure, taking notes of the “values” and what not of the populous scene down below, regretting perhaps (for he had never cast his net wide) the absence of any ballet-dancers, or jockeys, or laundry-girls, or women sponging themselves in hip-baths; but deeply, but passionately observing.