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But one day she was turning over her music, among which were a number of quaint old English songs and madrigals, which she and Maurice had jointly owned long ago at Cacouna, when she came upon one the words of which she had been used to laugh at, much to the annoyance of her fellow-singers. She had a half remembrance of them, and turned the pages to look if they were really so absurd.

Wave after wave of applause swept the house. Her fellow-singers were compelled to lead her out a half-dozen times before the tumult ceased. The manager, in ecstasies, fell on his knees, and kisses the tips of her fingers. When Stuart had fought his way through the crowd and reached the stage, he found her alone with her father in her room.

She did not yet suspect what awaited her when, in well-chosen yet cordial words, Gombert expressed his appreciation. She neither saw nor heard the fellow-singers who surrounded her; nay, when Dr.

The whole house went mad, rising to its feet, shouting, cheering, clapping, while Christine sobbed and fainted in the arms of her fellow-singers and had to be carried to her dressing-room. A few subscribers, however, protested. Why had so great a treasure been kept from them all that time? Till then, Christine Daae had played a good Siebel to Carlotta's rather too splendidly material Margarita.

She did not yet suspect what awaited her when, in well-chosen yet cordial words, Gombert expressed his appreciation. She neither saw nor heard the fellow-singers who surrounded her; nay, when Dr.

She did not yet suspect what awaited her when, in well-chosen yet cordial words, Gombert expressed his appreciation. She neither saw nor heard the fellow-singers who surrounded her; nay, when Dr.

So many of her fellow-singers had married young and married often, evidently following the advice of a great American humorist, and mostly with disastrous consequences, that Margaret preferred to be an exception, and to marry late if at all.