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Excerpt from The Night-Dancers: A Grand Romantic Opera, Partly Founded on the Story of Giselle
The scene is laid in Silesia. Giselle the daughter, and Mary the niece, of Godfrey, a Miller, have just finished making their dresses for the wedding of the former, which is to take place on the morrow deeply imbued with the superstitions of her country, Giselle is filled with 'romantionnotions, and gives way to idle fancies fond of dancing, i' and an enthusiast in music, she indulges in both until, wearied by her exertions, she is completely overpowered by sleep. Many, like a sen sible bridesmaid, has retired to rest, and left Giselle to her dancing and - her dream.
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