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In the course of a heavy tirade against the scoundrel, Redworth apprehended that it was the cantatrice's husband. Another outburst seemed to be in preparation. Nothing further was to be done for the book at that hour. He thought of Percy Dacier too. In his bed he could have wished himself peregrinating a bridge.
In the course of a heavy tirade against the scoundrel, Redworth apprehended that it was the cantatrice's husband. Another outburst seemed to be in preparation. Nothing further was to be done for the book at that hour. He thought of Percy Dacier too. In his bed he could have wished himself peregrinating a bridge.
The director of the Académie Royale demanded a large sum to release the artiste from her contract with him, and this was paid by the notary with an alacrity that seemed to suggest he was not acting solely according to the directions of the will, but was influenced by some personage who chose to remain in the background; the notary also paid all other demands made by the various operatic managers who claimed they would lose by Mlle. d'Armilly's failure to appear; these amounts were not deducted from the legacy, a circumstance that gave additional color to the supposition that the will of the deceased banker was not the sole factor in the celebrated cantatrice's good luck.
Another bit of gossip was to the effect that the former cantatrice's brother Léon was not a man but a woman; in short, the real Louise d'Armilly, who had loaned her name to Eugénie Danglars and assumed male attire solely for professional purposes.
The flattery of beholding a great assembly of human creatures bound glittering in wizard subservience to the voice of one soul, belongs to the artist, and is the cantatrice's glory, pre-eminent over whatever poor glory this world gives. She felt it, but she felt it as something apart.
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