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Herr Kapellmeister it is begging to come out; let me try to sing, won't you?" She clung to his arm and her eyes plead with him: "Don't scold me. You have put 'Siegfried' off twice now because you had no bird. Let me try to-day." The Kapellmeister frowned. Her form was like a lily swaying against the trunk of an oak. "Tschut " he said, "Bewahre! Marta, go down and bring up her soup.
"You have nothing to be grateful for," he cried, "Pah! If a man picks up a bird with a broken wing and nurses it to life again for the sake of its voice, is that cause for gratitude? I do it for my own ends, child. Tschut!" He turned his back on her and went over to the window. "If you want to know when you can sing, ask the Doctor. If he says you may "
Ritter stared at her: "What do you mean, child; what are you talking about? Is it fright? Tschut! It will pass." He took the cloak again and laid it about her shoulders: "Come now, the orchestra will be growing impatient. It is ten o'clock past." "I cannot," said Kaya, and her lip trembled: "Telegraph to Dresden, dear Master quickly!" "Potztausend and why?"
The Kapellmeister passed his hand over his face: "Tschut, child!" he said, "What are you talking about? Be quiet now and sing this as I tell you. You have heard it before?" "Yes, I have heard it." "And sung it perhaps with Helmanoff?" "Yes Monsieur." He handed her the score, running his fingers over the bird motive of 'Siegfried, giving her the key. Then he leaned back again and folded his arms.
What a night it had been! Do you recall it?" they said "Do you remember it?" And then the opera-goers closed their eyes ecstatically. "The season before was better, far better! Tschut!" And then they went on drinking their beer and liqueurs, and fanning themselves resignedly. "If the heat did not break before night-fall there would be a thunder-storm."
"I was falling," she said, "Why did you bring me back?" The Kapellmeister sat down by the edge of the bed and began to whistle softly; he whistled a theme once, and then he repeated it a semi-tone higher. "I suspected as much," he said, "Was it because you had no money?" Kaya turned her face away. "Were you starving? Tschut! You needn't answer. Your eyes show it.
"The tenor ah, what a voice he had, and what acting, but Brünnhilde bah!" They shook their heads. "The Schultz was growing old, and her voice was thin in the upper register; it struck against the roof of her mouth when she forced it, and sounded like tin. In the love-scene, when Brünnhilde wakes from her sleep Tschut!
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