of the other foot. The other foot now takes a straight step
forward, and you pause in a respectful attitude before the personage of
importance whom you wish to salute. Several steps may be taken in
succession before the final pause. The ceremonious step is always taken
with the foot you begin with (the one toward the person you salute); the
other foot always takes natural steps. This walk is only meant for men,
and only on grand occasions.

7. _Intoxication, vertigo_. The feet are planted on the ground and
apart. This attitude expresses familiarity.

8. _The alternative_. One foot in a straight line behind the other, the
weight of the body on both. This attitude is offensive and defensive.

9. _Defiance_. The weight of the body on the foot that is behind, the
other foot diagonally forward; head thrown back.

Delsarte never classed the basic attitudes under the heads of
concentric, normal or excentric, any more than he so classed gestures.
He simply gave them in the above sequence.

Lesson VII.

The Medallion of Inflection.

"_The Key to all Gestures_"

[Illustration]

[Illustration: down arrow] Affirmation.
[Illustration: right arrow on top; left arrow on bottom] Negation.
[Illustration: up arrow] Hope.
[Illustration: top right to bottom left arrow] Rejection of things
that harm us.
[Illustration: bottom left to top right arrow] Rejection of things
that we despise.
[Illustration: upward facing curve] Ease, comfort (resembles a hammock).
[Illustration: downward facing curve] Silence, secrecy.
[Illustration: () curves] Plenitude, amplitude.
[Illustration: )( curves] Delicacy, grace.
[Illustration] Physical beauty.
[Illustration] Beauty of intellect.

[Illustration: Example (complex curve)]

[Illustration: down arrow] "You may believe
[Illustration: right arrow] that no lord
[Illustration: complex curve] had as much glory or happiness."

Mme. Geraldy's Lessons On Lafontaine's Fables.

The Wolf and the Lamb.

Might makes right; we shall prove this presently.

A Lamb was quenching his thirst in a stream of pure water. A Wolf, in
quest of adventures, happened by, drawn to the spot by hunger.

"What makes thee so bold as to pollute the water I drink?" said he,
angrily. "Thy impudence deserves to be punished."

"Sire," answered the Lamb, "soften your wrath, and consider that I am
drinking the water more than twenty feet below your Majesty, and can,
th