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They had passed out of the Oliver Optic, Harry Castlemon, James Otis era. Joel Wixon read for excitement; Luke Mellows for information as to the machinery of authorship. Young as they were, they went to the theatre to the op'ra house, which never housed opera. Joel went often and without price, since his father, being an editor, had the glorious prerogative of "comps."
"You oughta be singin' in grand op'ra." "Yeh sure! The diamond horseshoe is waitin' for the chance to land me one swift kick. It only took me twelve weeks and one meal a day to land this after Kittie seen to it that they let me out over at the Bijou. Say, I know where I get off in this town, Lew. If there's one thing I know, it's where I get off. I ain't a squab with a pair of high-priced ankles.
All over the house one heard the shrill voices of boys crying out, "Op'ra books books for the op'ra words and music for the op'ra." Throughout the boxes a great coming and going took place and an interchange of visits.
He was up here las' week, an' says he, 'Run in, an' look at th' op'ra, says he. 'Run in, an' take a flash iv it, he says. ''Tis gr-reat, he says. So I takes Duggan, an' we goes down together. "Well, Doheny does be gr-reat paper with thim.
Barbecue-Smith was tossed on the floor. "It's time we went to see if tea's ready," said Priscilla. She hoisted herself up from the sofa and went swishing off across the room, striding beneath the trailing silk. Denis followed her, faintly humming to himself: "That's why I'm going to Sing in op'ra, sing in op'ra, Sing in op-pop-pop-pop-popera."
Mallory had to go clear to the bottom of the trunk after it; but when he'd shook out the wrinkles and got himself inside the view was worth while. After he's blown up his op'ra hat and got out his stick you couldn't tell him from a three times winner. "Chee!" says I. "You've got Silent Smith tied to a post. If you acts like you look, you don't need me." He wouldn't have it that way, though.
Ye niver see such a lot iv thim, Cassidy, O'Regan, Hogan, Mulcahey, Shay, Mullaney, Mullvihill, an' th' eight O'Neills, all sint through be Doheny without cridintials. Sure, it looked like a meetin' iv th' Wolf Tones. It did that. "Th' op'ra was on whin we wint in, an' they was whalin' away in Eyetallian. Duggan listened; an' says he, 'What's the man sayin'? he says. 'I dinnaw, I says.
There were three gradations of lighting: full on, half on, and entirely off. This was the only theater in Gopher Prairie. It was known as the "op'ra house." Once, strolling companies had used it for performances of "The Two Orphans," and "Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model," and "Othello" with specialties between acts, but now the motion-pictures had ousted the gipsy drama.
It would help too if you'd happen to be just startin' for the op'ra, with all your pearl ropes on. And whisper, soft pedal on Djickyns here, but heavy on his suff'rin' countrymen! That's the line." Aunty shudders a couple of times, and once she starts to crash in with the sharp reproof; but she swallows it. Some little old diplomat, Aunty is! She was gettin' the picture.
'He's a music-man, said the landlord, 'or at least that's what he told me, miss; come down here to write an op'ra. 'Really! cried Julia, 'I never heard of anything so delightful! Why, we shall be able to slip down at night and hear him improvise! What' is his name? 'Jimson, said the man. 'Jimson? repeated Julia, and interrogated her memory in vain.
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