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"I hope that Fräulein Gluyas will soon appear in opera and achieve the success which she deserves. She is really here incognito, and spends all her time in private musical practice at Chickering Hall and the study of languages." "Why this secrecy?" asked Clayton. "Ah! My dear sir! These are the ways of impresarios.

For he was poor, and she was poor, and how could she succeed without money? But if he could open up his mine and block out a great ore body then her claims and Bunker's, that touched it on both sides, would take on a speculative value. They could be sold for cash and she could go East in style, to take lessons from the ten-dollar teacher who had influence with directors and impresarios.

'I fear that the ghost exists, said Lord Canterville, smiling, 'though it may have resisted the overtures of your enterprising impresarios. It has been well known for three centuries, since 1584 in fact, and always makes its appearance before the death of any member of our family. 'Well, so does the family doctor for that matter, Lord Canterville.

He had put on evening clothes of decidedly Parisian cut, clothes which he had used abroad and had brought back with him, but which I had never known him to wear since he came back. On a chair reposed a chimney-pot hat that would have been pronounced faultless on the "continong," but was unknown, except among impresarios, on Broadway. Kennedy shrugged his shoulders he even had the shrug.

"Ought to be pumped down into the region of the white lights. It sure would stir things up." "It would put out the lights at ten p. m.," answered Mr. Magee, "and inculcate other wholesome habits of living disastrous to the restaurant impresarios." Miss Norton rose and ascended the stairs. Still the protesting Magee was at her heels. At the head of the stair she turned.

She had never behaved herself to any of the young men in such sort as to cause any of those rivalries and jealousies which are sometimes apt to manifest themselves in hostile partisanship, when the Diva is on the boards another fruitful source of trouble to much-tried impresarios. She had walked circumspectly and prudently in all respects a most moral and highly satisfactory Diva.