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It's like I tell you what it's like Bovey, its got the same you know the same intervals that's the word that the priests chant in! And then, just when you're thinking it has, off it goes into something like opera bouffe or those French rounds our nurse used to sing. But isn't it pretty? I say where's Lady Violet now, Bovey, eh?
I do believe I've seen it a hundred times, and always with fresh enjoyment. It's exquisite! I know it's disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffé to the last minute, and enjoy it. This evening..." He mentioned a French actress, and was going to tell something about her; but the ambassador's wife, with playful horror, cut him short.
Few understand the French or Italian languages, few are proficients in music, but they go because "it is the thing, you know." Opera bouffe is very popular, for those who cannot understand the language are generally quick enough to catch or appreciate the indecency of the plot or situations. The more indecent the piece, the more certain it is of a long run.
They were both shops and dwellings; I am sure of a neat pharmacy and a fresh-looking cafe restaurant, and one dwelling all faced with bright-green tiles. An alguazil I am certain he was an alguazil, though he looked like an Italian carabiniere and wore a cocked hat loitered into a police station; but I remember no one else during our brief stay in that street except those bouffe boy beggars.
Cary in her turn and beckoned to Uncle Billy who had been standing by in silence. "William! conduct these soldiers through my house and show them every courtesy. If the Colonel's orders are not obeyed, report to me." "Yas'm," grinned Uncle Billy, with an opera bouffe salute. "Ev'ry molestashun I'se gwine report." Morrison laughed outright.
The happy Bilboquet conducted her to the Opera, the Italiens, the Conservatoire, and also to the Varietes where they saw Bouffe and Hyacinthe play in the laughable Filleul de tout le Monde. It was intended that she should stay till April, and that then he should take her back to Germany, leaving her there to pursue her journey to Wierzchownia, whither he was to proceed later.
What earthly father would create hearts only to crush them? Why had He thrust human beings onto this earth against their will, without their volition, to suffer the tortures of the damned? Why had He created this huge joke of an animal, part body, part soul, all nerves keen to catch at suffering, only to laugh at it? Why had He taken the pains to fashion this Opera Bouffe of a world at all?
No one, however, could see one of these curious travesties without being reminded, in an awkward way, of the morale of the opera bouffe, and of the personnel as I may say of "The Black Crook," "The White Fawn," and the "Devil's Auction."
They took counsel of tradition, not of Nature. In fact, the French stage is given over to sensation dramas and the opéra bouffe, and such theatres as the Comédie Française and the Odéon have but a forced and artificial existence." "Not a word against the opéra bouffe!" remarked one of the lady-guests, laughing.
The original conception was that the offender against the law should be punished, and that the punishment should be made to fit the crime, an 'opera bouffe' conception which has been abandoned in reasoning though not in practice.
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