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The offer tempted him sorely; yet, for some unaccountable reason, he shrank from turning his back upon Lorimer. And, besides, if Beatrix "How long would you need me?" "The entire season." "How soon?" "In Faust, on the tenth of next month." "In Faust?" The impresario saw that Thayer was hesitating. The idea of Faust plainly attracted him, and the impresario hastily followed up the advantage.
The tableau was pretty, but the pose and juxtaposition were too eloquent and evident to require explanation. I left the conservatory, and, at the same time, the rose and my ideal. You may carry that song and dance to your impresario." "I'm shy on one word, lady. Jux jux put me wise on dat, will yer?"
The proprietor of a preparatory school, if he is a man of wealth, need not be able to teach, any more than an impresario need be able to write plays. 'Well, we'll pass that for the moment, I said. 'Here's the real difficulty. How are you going to find out the school Mr Ford has chosen? 'I have found it out already or Nesta has. She set a detective to work. It was perfectly easy.
It is useless for the city to expect more from a man than he can accomplish. When I have got thawed, I will endeavour to do my duty. Good night, Signor Conte!" said the little impresario, preparing to follow his servant with the lanthorn, as well as the enormous quantity of wraps around him would allow him to do so. "Come now, Signor Ercole, you won't be so ill-natured.
Moreover, the music lessons Dorothea was taking at Herr Carovius’s expense gave the girl a new conception of her art, and awakened in her a measure of wholesome ambition. Satisfied as he was with her docility and her progress, Herr Carovius referred to her at times as the coming female Paganini, and pictured himself in the rôle of a demoniacal impresario.
That phrase pursued me. It had been the dream of Max von Sempach's life to be Ambassador. There had been a dream in his wife's life. It was the dream of Coralie's life to be a great singer; hence came the impresario with his large locket and the rest. And now, quaintly enough, I was fulfilling somebody else's dream of life Cousin Elizabeth's!
The impresario wavered. "How much time do you need?" he asked a little impatiently. "I must have a week." "Impossible." "Very well, then. But I thank you for the honor you have done me in asking me to fill the place." Thayer rose with an air of decision, and the impresario could do nothing else than follow his example. At the door, he turned back. "Mr.
As the song ended, Felicien Vernou and Lousteau went up to Sir Francis Drake and reproached him for wishing to take such a treasure from France, at the same time flattering him for his cleverness as an impresario. La Luigia then sang an air from the "Nina" of Paesiello; and in that the part being very dramatic she showed a talent for comedy second only to her vocal gift.
He denied himself nothing, and did not put his light under a bushel. But now, as he was about to return to his own country, his impresario told him that no man could be a great singer and at the same time be called Peal; he advised him to adopt a more elegant name, a foreign name by preference, for that was the fashion.
"I intend to offer my Opera to the world at London. I will be my own impresario. Yet I want one thing, and that is a Voice. Oh for a Voice like that of Bice! But it is idle to wish for her. "Never have I heard any voice like hers, my Teresina. God grant that I may find her! "Expect soon and suddenly to see your most loving brother, Mrs. Thornton showed this note to Despard the next time they met.
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