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Then someone heard me sing, and " she shrugged her beautiful shoulders "but that is quite another story, Mr. Ware. I am a concert-singer now, and it pays me excellently." "I am very pleased with your success, Princess. But Anne?" She flashed a rather annoyed look at him. "You are scarcely so chivalrous as I thought, Mr. Ware," she said coldly. "No, say nothing; I quite understand.
Did ye think for her a slip o' a grand concert-singer from up-along to have a heart for the wind an' snows o' Chance Along?" Pat grumbled. The skipper looked at Mary. "There bain't nothin' wrong wid her heart," he said. "Sure there bain't," agreed Mary. "Her poor little heart bes jist sick to death o' Chance Along an' what else would ye look for?
Toward Mara she had exerted similar good will, ignoring all professional jealousies. Miss Parke, a concert-singer, was once angry because Billington's name was in bigger type. The latter ordered her name to be printed in the smallest letters used; "and much Miss Parke gained by her corpulent type," says the narrator.
They found in her apartment her dresses, her linen, all even to the night-robe that she was to have worn that night, but there was nothing that could give the slightest clue to her identity. The owner of the house had let the apartment to 'Mademoiselle Linda, concert-singer, He knew nothing more. I was summoned before the police magistrate.
If you prefer to be a concert-singer, my father had a cousin who married in England, where she has a good deal of influence in the musical world. I am sure she would take a motherly interest in you, both for your own sake and mine. Your romantic story, instead of doing you injury in England, would make you a great lioness, if you chose to reveal it."
Then perhaps comes a little vocalism sternly classic though an aria from Gluck, or a solemn and pathetic song from Mendelssohn: the performer being either a well-known concert-singer, or a young lady very nervous and a little uncertain who, it is whispered, is 'an Academy girl; a pupil, that is, of the institution in question.
Nora Whitney was to go abroad under the care of a well-known musician and his wife, who was a fine concert-singer. It seemed such an excellent opportunity; and Nora had an ambition to reach a high standard. The Professor and Madame had visited the Whitneys, and both parties were mutually satisfied. "I could never let a child of mine go away among strangers in that manner," declared Mrs. Underhill.
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