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Wagner does not seem to have seen Cosima after the Von Bülows' second visit to him at Zurich until they came to him for a visit at Biebrich during the summer of 1862. What a contrast Cosima must have seemed to poor Minna who, in the same house and but a short time before, had desecrated the manuscript of "Die Meistersinger" by allowing a bread-ball to roll over it!
"The first act passed off without mishap save for some unnecessary questions from Minna. But at the beginning of the second act, when he had described the stage-setting 'to the right the cobbler shop of Hans Sachs; to the left, etc., Minna exclaimed: "'And here sits the audience! at the same time letting a bread-ball roll over Wagner's manuscript. That ended the reading."
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