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"I knew there was a special mandate respecting one's particularly venerable relations, with a view to self-guidance in case they should prove troublesome, like Britta's good grand-mamma. What a frightfully picturesque mouthing old lady she is!" "She is la petroleuse of Norway!" exclaimed Duprez. "She would make an admirable dancer in the Carmagnole!"
"Monsieur is a philosopher!" said Duprez, with a good-humored gesture; "I would not presume to contradict him." "You see, my lad," went on Gueldmar more gently, "there is much in our ancient Norwegian history that is forgotten or ignored by students of to-day.
At that moment, Lorimer, Duprez, and Macfarlane came on the scene, thinking they had kept aloft long enough, and the strange disappearance of the two girls was rapidly explained to them. They listened astonished and almost incredulous, but agreed with the bonde as to Lovisa's probable share in the matter. "Look here!" said Lorimer excitedly.
Britta glanced anxiously at him, and went on. "Then she tried to shut the doors upon me and beat me but I escaped. Outside I saw a man I knew with his carriole, and I borrowed it of him and came back as fast as I could but oh! I am so afraid my grandmother said such dreadful things!" "The others have taken a boat to Bosekop," said Duprez, to reassure her. "They may be there by now."
"Now, my boy," he said to himself, as he took his place kneeling in the stern of the canoe, "give her every ounce you have." For half an hour without pause, except twice to give his patient stimulant, the sweeping paddle and the swaying body kept their rhythmic swing, till down the last riffle shot the canoe and in a minute more was at the Landing. "Duprez! Here, quick!"
Yet the opera did not see the light until Nourrit's successor, Duprez, had vanished from the stage, and his successor again, Roger, who, though a brilliant singer, was far inferior to the other two in creative intellectuality, appeared on the scene. This artist may be also included as belonging largely to the sphere of Pauline Viardot's art-life.
Britta shook her head. "The tide is against them no! we shall be there first. But," and she looked wistfully at Pierre, "my grandmother said Mr. Dyceworthy had sworn to ruin the Froeken. What did she mean, do you think?" Duprez did not answer, he made a strange grimace and shrugged his shoulders. Then he seized the whip and lashed the pony.
Thus, a phenomenal tenor like Duprez sang with ease the whole tenor range, including the high C, in the powerful, vibrant "chest" register, whereas the average tenor, while producing a great portion of his voice in the chest register, is obliged at a certain point in the ascending scale to pass into the "middle" and beyond that into the "head" register.
Madame Carvalho did not refuse to pay Delsarte for her lessons, but she did not want to be called his pupil. Although she had attended the Conservatoire, she wanted to be known solely as a pupil of Duprez. As a matter of fact it was Duprez who knew how to make the "Little Miolan," the delightful warbler, into the great singer with her important place on the French stage.
Dyceworthy's flabby face betokened the utmost horror. "Sir," he said gravely, "there are subjects concerning which it is not seemly to speak without due reverence. He knoweth His own elect. He hath chosen them out from the beginning. He summoned forth from the million, the glorious apostle of reform, Martin Luther " "Le bon gaillard!" laughed Duprez. "Tempted by a pretty nun!
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