Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
"She did really." "Then Caroline is out of reckoning." "Between ourselves, I think she was right, Elizabeth. I am positive I should spend any sum of money. What I need is a wife who can make money week by week, year by year always something coming in; like an opera-singer, for instance. Do you understand?" "Could you expect me to understand such nonsense?
If it had been a great inventor, a poet, an artist, there would have been nothing more than a two-line paragraph. But an opera-singer, one who entertains us during our idle evenings ha! that's a different matter. Set instantly that great municipal machinery called the police in action; sell extra editions on the streets. What ado!" "What the devil makes you so bitter?" "Was I bitter?
Sometimes he asked himself: "What would my dear prudential mother say, to see me leaving my business to agents and clerks, while I devote my life to the service of an opera-singer? an opera-singer, too, who has twice been on the verge of being sold as a slave, and who has been the victim of a sham marriage!"
Moreover, Margaret Donne was ashamed of what Margarita da Cordova knew, and Cordova had moments of sharp regret when she thought of the girl who had been herself, and had lived under good Mrs. Rushmore's protection, like a flower in a glass house. She remembered, too, how Lushington and Mrs. Rushmore had warned her and entreated her not to become an opera-singer.
You understand what I mean, and heaven knows I don't wish to pain you, mother I'd give anything not to! Why do you talk of these things? 'Because I feel that you're unhappy, Tom, and I know that I am and there must be some way out of it. After all, my dear now don't be angry! Miss Donne is a good girl she's all that I wish I had been but after all, she's going to be an opera-singer.
Her dress was severe and quiet, as became her occupation a plain, dark grey, but the shapely fulness of the figure gave softness to the outlines. It was no wonder Jasper Kimber wished to marry her; and, if he did, the future of the man was sure. She had a temperament which might have made her an adventuress or an opera-singer. She had been touched in time, and she had never looked back.
But suddenly a startling sense of the incongruity came upon her, that she, the opera-singer, Owen Asher's mistress, should be admitted into a convent, should be received, the honoured guest of holy women. And she got up, leaving the two priests to discuss the financial results of the concert, and stood gazing out at the window.
Adela was herself the chief witness to its unearthly sweetness, and her testimony was confirmed by Edward Buxley, whose ear had likewise taken in the notes, though not on the same night, as the pair publicly proved by dates. Both declared that the voice belonged to an opera-singer or a spirit.
It was that which gave me strength to work so hard for musical distinction; and that motive stimulated me to appear as an opera-singer, though the publicity was distasteful to me. When I heard that the poor little creature was dead, I was tormented with self-reproach, and I was all the more unhappy because I could tell no one of my trouble.
At first they could not get an actress to suit them, but they finally secured the services of a young and favorite opera-singer named Marietta Volkmar.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking