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The singers were young, the audience was inclined to applaud, and everything went smoothly. Reanda thought the soprano rather weak in the great tower scene. "Calpesta il mio cadavere, ma salva il Trovator!" she sang in great ascending intervals. Reanda sighed, for she made no impression on him, and he remembered that he had been deeply impressed, even thrilled, when he had first heard the phrase.
In an instant Gloria was standing up on the bed to her full height. And the hot, still room rang with a burst of desperate, ear-breaking song, in majestic, passionate, ascending intervals. "Calpesta il mio cadavere, ma salva il Trovator!" The last great, true note died away. For one instant she stood up still, with outstretched hands, white, motionless.
He had gone on some distance, and the crowd had dispersed in various directions, till he was almost alone as he emerged into the open space where the Via del Clementino intersects the Ripetta. At that moment he heard a wild and thrilling burst of song. "Calpesta il mio cadavere, ma salva il Trovator!"
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