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The applause of her fellow artistes delighted her; she bowed to the orchestra, and, turning to the chorus, said that she would be pleased to sing the duet again if they did not mind the delay; and coming down the stage and standing in front of the box, she said to Ulick "Well, are you satisfied?... Is that your idea of Elizabeth?"
So they began a duet of silence. The little wavelets came dancing shoreward out of the darkness, breaking with a thin, splashing sound against the shale at their feet. Somewhere in the night a restless heron croaked and croaked among the willows. "Well, little girl?" he asked at last. "Well?" she inquired, with a calmness that did not mislead him.
"What a perfectly elegant father you must have, Ruth!" "I should say so," came in a duet from Betty and Katharine who were respectively gloating over a string of pearl beads and a pretty hatpin. Alice had found a silver belt-buckle in her parcel, and Charlotte was gazing at a coral necklace with great satisfaction.
Their arms were interlaced in a brother-like manner, they were poising themselves with much care on their legs, and they were drunk. Well had the elder interpreter said that he was not jealous of Aragon. They rolled forward toward the party, repeating their outrageous duet, whose reception by the staring peons appeared to gratify them immensely.
The exquisite duet between Lorenzo and Jessica, in the opening of the fifth act of "The Merchant of Venice," finds for its subject the circumstances that produce the mood the lovely night and the crescent moon which first make them talk poetry, then call for music, and next speculate upon its nature. Let us turn now to some instances of sweet observance in other kinds.
It was not a case of "no song, no supper;" but of supper or, rather, dinner and no song. Bermondsey had failed in the artistic combat, not from lack of powers, as its brilliant part in the duet and its subsequent soli proved, but simply from a Sybaritic love for creature comforts.
Lady Bloomfield gives a very touching account of her first visit to the widowed mistress, whom, nearly twenty years before, she had so gladly and proudly served for true service is in the spirit, though the act may be limited to taking a part in a duet, or handing the daily bouquet. She wrote: "The Queen is dreadfully changed most sad, but with the gentlest, most benevolent smile.
But there is an accent of veracity in the reported assertion of the author of 'A Duet with an Occasional Chorus' that this is the book closest to his heart, because it is an honest attempt to deal with the facts of life as they stare us in the face to-day. And yet 'A Duet' is unknown to a tithe of the countless readers who have devoured its writer's other volumes with avidity.
Such numbers as the Prayer and Finale of the first act, Elsa's Song and the Processional March in the second, the Wedding Chorus in the last, are simply placed there; they do not grow out of themes, as they would have grown had the opera been written when Wagner was ten years older. The love duet which takes place after the marriage is a series of his most generously inspired melodies.
It was sung in Japan before I was born, and, I doubt not, before Columbus discovered America. Also, it is a duet a competitive duet with forfeit penalties attached. Paula will have to sing it with me. I'll teach you. Sit down there, that's right. Now all the rest of you gather around and sit down."
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