Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
'Put my wig on, said Madame Bonanni to the cadaverous maid, and she sat down in front of the toilet-table. 'We must talk business at once, she continued, suddenly speaking with the utmost calm. 'The appointment is at my house, at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, Schreiermeyer. Miss Donne will sing for us. Bring a pianist and the Minister of Fine Arts if you can get him.
The embrace was of terrific power, and a certain amount of grease paint came off. 'Little Miss Donne, cried the prima donna, relaxing her hold on Margaret's waist but instantly seizing her by the wrist and turning her round sharply, like a dressmaker's doll on a pivot, 'that is Schreiermeyer! The great Schreiermeyer! The terrible Schreiermeyer! You see him before you, my child! Tremble!
Margaret pressed the kind hand, and a moment later her teacher was hurrying her back through the dark wilderness of the stage to the brilliant house beyond. Schreiermeyer had already disappeared without so much as a word. Mrs. Rushmore had not been at all surprised at Lushington's sudden departure.
When he had taken down half the contents of the small bottle he desisted and poured the rest into the glass, apparently for Cordova's benefit. 'I hope I have left you enough, he said, as he prepared to go. 'My throat felt like a rusty gun-barrel. 'Fright is very bad for the voice, Schreiermeyer remarked, as the call-boy handed him another bottle of beer through the open door.
Margaret saw that Lushington was not ashamed of his mother, as his mother; but she knew instinctively that his mother's past was a shame which he felt always and to the quick. Madame Bonanni ate a good deal before she spoke again, feeling, perhaps, that she had lost time. 'Schreiermeyer says she sings divinely, she said at last, looking at Lushington and then nodding at Margaret.
She had particularly asked Schreiermeyer not to come and see her till the end of the second act, and Madame Bonanni stayed away of her own accord, rather to Margaret's surprise, but greatly to her relief. At the last minute Mrs.
Do you know your way about? 'Yes. What am I to do? Madame Bonanni did not answer at once. She was scrutinising the faces of the courtiers on the darkened stage, and wishing very much that there were more light. 'Schreiermeyer is doing things handsomely, Lushington observed. 'He has really given us a good allowance of conspirators.
Whatever Schreiermeyer might mean by returning devout thanks to his Maker at that moment, the retired singer was perfectly sure that he knew his business. He was probably in need of a lyric soprano for the next season, and that might lead to an immediate engagement for Margaret. 'How hot it is! the latter complained, in an undertone. 'There is no air at all here!
He felt something of the selfish pleasure which filled that King of Bavaria who had a performance of Lohengrin given for himself alone. But the pleasure was not unmixed, nor was the delight unclouded. Even Schreiermeyer had given up coming to the rehearsals, for he was now sure of Margaret's success and had passed on to other business.
Margaret held out her hand, and Logotheti had just begun to say a few rather conventional words of congratulation when Schreiermeyer rushed up with his hat on, pushing everybody aside without ceremony till he seized Margaret's wrist and would apparently have dragged her away by main force if she had not gone with him willingly.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking