morning, noon
Eh ! Monsieur , you are a happy man . ' ` I should be , Sire ; ' and Berenger was on the point of confiding the situation of his affairs to this most engaging of princes , when a fresh supply of prisoners , chased with wild antics and fiendish yells by the devils , came headlong in on them ; and immediately , completing , as Henry said , the galimatias of mythology , a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage , and disclosed the deities Mercury and Cupid , who made a complimentary address to the three princely brothers , inciting them to claim the nymphs whom their valour had defended , and lead them through the mazes of a choric celestial dance . This dance had been the special device of Monsieur and the ballet-master , and during the last three days the houris had been almost danced off their legs with rehearsing it morning , noon , and night , but one at least of them was scarcely in a condition for its performance . Eustacie , dizzied at the first minute by the whirl of her Elysian merry-go-round , had immediately after become conscious of that which she had been too childish to estimate merely in prospect , the exposure to universal gaze . Strange staring eyes , glaring lights , frightful imps seemed to wheel round her in an intolerable delirious succession . Her only refuge was in closing her eyes , but even this could not long be persevered in , so necessary a part of the pageant was she ; and besides , she had Berenger to look for , Berenger , whom she had foolishly laughed at for knowing how dreadful it would be .