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Updated: June 15, 2025
'I began by wishing to do it to earn my living, if I could, but as it turns out, I have a great voice. I believe I have one of the great voices of the day. I'm born to sing, and I should sing if you told me I had millions. I feel it now, and I am not boasting in the least. Ask Schreiermeyer, if you like. 'Who is that person with the queer name? inquired Mrs. Rushmore severely.
The tie was knitted of the palest mauve, shot with green and gold threads. 'I have seen Schreiermeyer, he said. 'Is there to be any secret about your début? 'None whatever! But I have said nothing about it, and none of the people here seem to have found it out yet. 'So much the better.
'Give yourselves the trouble to be seated, said Schreiermeyer, in a tone so soft that it would not have disturbed a sleeping child. As soon as he was obeyed he became quite quiet and unobtrusive again, the furious glare faded from his eyes, and the white kid hand returned to rest upon its fellow. 'How good you are! cried Madame De Rosa gratefully, as she sat down on the cane chair.
A terrific explosion shook the building to its foundations; the lights went out, and there was a long grinding crash of broken glass not far off. In the momentary silence that followed before the inevitable panic the voice of Schreiermeyer, the manager, rang out through the darkness. 'Ladies and gentlemen! There's no danger! Keep your seats! The lights will be up directly.
Then she sat down at her piano to look over Rigoletto, whistling her part softly while she played, in order to save her voice, and in a few minutes she had forgotten Logotheti, Schreiermeyer and Lushington.
'I believe His Majesty possesses those things, answered Lushington, as if he did not like the subject. 'He looked and talked much more like an old friend than anything else, Margaret went on, remembering that Madame Bonanni had used the same expression before Schreiermeyer. To her surprise and sudden discomfiture neither of the two paid the least attention to her remark.
Then, still in the dark, some of the musicians struck in and supported her, and others followed, till the whole body of harmony was complete; and just as she was at the wildest trills, at the very passage during which the crash had come, the lights went up all at once; and there stood Cordova in white and lace, with her eyes half shut and shaking her outstretched hands as she always made them shake in the mad scene; and the stage was just as it had been before the accident, except that Schreiermeyer was standing near the singer in evening dress with a perfectly new and shiny high hat on the back of his head, and his mouth wide open.
It was late in the afternoon after a really cloudless June day, and she had been for a long ramble in the park with Lord Creedmore, who had talked to her about her father and the old Oxford days, till all her present life seemed to be a mere dream; and she could not realise, as she went up to her room, that she was to go back to London on the morrow, to the theatre, to rehearsals, to Pompeo Stromboli, Schreiermeyer, and the public.
Schreiermeyer, rapacious and glittering, had a photograph of her hideously enamelled in colours inside the cover of his watch, and the facsimile of her autograph was engraved across the lid of his silver cigarette-case. Pompeo Stromboli carried some of her hair in a locket which he wore on his chain between two amulets against the Evil Eye.
Every one trembles before Schreiermeyer! The manager had risen, but was perfectly imperturbable and silent. He did not even grunt. Madame Bonanni dropped Margaret's wrist and shrugged her Juno-like shoulders. 'Schreiermeyer, she said, as if she had forgotten all about Margaret, 'if that lime-light man plays the moon in my eyes again I shall come out on the balcony with blue goggles.
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