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Arnould would not longer accompany her daughter to the opera, and with the wager the most beautiful and fascinating woman of the time. Sophie, finding herself freed from all conventional shackles, gave full play to her tastes, both for luxury and intellectual society.
There was a time, even in my extremely recent day, when that word was more frightful to the orthodox than a ton of nitro-glycerine; was to the elect, a fouler abomination even than opera bouffe and the can can.
The opera was cut and doctored to suit the singers notably Tichatscheck; the first performance seems to have missed fire, and at the second the house was empty; at the third it was full; and, but for the intrigues of some of the musicians and scribblers, and the insanity of the management, it appears probable one has a right to use so moderate a word that before long it might have won in Dresden the success it presently won throughout Europe.
It has been proven in the capital that President Miraflores set out from San Mateo with one hundred thousand dollars belonging to the government, accompanied by Senorita Isabel Guilbert, the opera singer.
He had a very fair taste in matters of art, and a keen relish for prints of a high school none of your French Opera Dancers, or tawdry Racing Prints, such as had delighted the simple eyes of Mr.
Miss Eschelle says that she is thoroughly American in her tastes." "Then her tastes are not quite conformed to her style. That girl might be anything Queen of Spain, or coryphee in the opera ballet. She is clever as clever. One always expects to hear of her as the heroine of an adventure." "Didn't you say you knew her in Europe?" "No. We heard of her and her mother everywhere.
Leyburn, good soul, gazed at them with eyes which grew a little moist under her spectacles. She wished Richard could have seen the girls dressed, 'just once. But Rose treated the cards with no sort of tenderness. 'If one could but put them up to auction, she said flippantly, holding them up, 'how many German opera tickets I should get for nothing! I don't know what Agnes feels.
The attendant attempted to push it on behind, and at the same time gave it a sharp blow with his sheathed sword. This changed the scene to the "opera comique."
The "Box-office of the Opera-house, No. 50,50" they were newly married, and went to the opera on Sunday evenings; the most enjoyable hours of their lives were spent there, for they had to sit quite still, while their souls met in the beauty and harmony of the fairyland on the other side of the curtain. Then followed the name of a man, crossed out.
I could not behold this silent and expressive sorrow without being touched, when I compared in my mind this pale and weeping woman with the madcap who had made fun of me at the Opera Comique. "You shall not go," I said, putting myself in front of the door. "Why?" "Because, in spite of what you have done to me, I love you always, and I want you to stay here." "To turn me out to-morrow?
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