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Jacques Sennier's opera was bringing him in thousands of pounds, and he had received great offers for future works from America, where Le Paradis Terrestre had just made a furore at the Metropolitan Opera House. He and Madame Sennier were in New York now, having a more than lovely time. The generous American nation had taken them both to its heart.
Sennier's new opera is expected to be ready for March at latest. We'll produce ours" Charmian thrilled at that word "just about the same time, a day or two before, or after. I'll get together a cast that no opera house in this world or the next can better. I'll have scenery and effects such as haven't been seen on any stage in the world before.
Although the curtain was now up he noticed that Charmian, with raised opera-glasses, was earnestly looking at Mrs. Shiffney's box. He noticed, too, that her left hand shook slightly, almost imperceptibly. "Her hour of triumph!" Yes, the hour proved to be that. Madame Sennier's energies had not been expended in vain.
She did not move her seat forward again, but she often leaned forward a little. A shade with a brain, a heart and a soul! What were they doing to-night? Charmian remembered the attempt to get the libretto away from Claude, Madame Sennier's remarks about Claude after the return from Constantine. The shade had done her utmost to ensure that this first night should never be. She had failed.
I I went round to Madame Sennier's box with Claude Adelaide Shiffney and Armand Gillier were in it! and congratulated her. Madre, we faced the music." Her voice quivered slightly. Mrs. Mansfield impulsively took her child's hands and held them. "We faced the music. Claude is strong. I never knew what he was before. Without that tremendous failure I never should have known him. He helped me.
"Of course. Leave the libretto entirely to me. He would be certain to suspect any move on your part." Madame Sennier's white face looked very hard as she nodded and left the room. She met the waiter bringing Mrs. Shiffney's tea at the door. When she and the waiter were both gone Mrs. Shiffney drank her tea on the balcony, sitting largely on a cane chair. She felt agreeably excited.
Heath, whatever you may say, your strongest instinct is a selfish one, the instinct of self-preservation." What was Jacques Sennier's strongest instinct? Madame Sennier had made a powerful impression on Heath, and he had been greatly flattered by the deep attention with which she had listened to what he had to say about her husband's opera.
"But I have never even thought " "No, no. But now he's here, and thinks so much of the libretto, and wants to see you, it would be absurd of us to pretend that he could not be of great use to us. I mean, to pretend to ourselves. Of course if he would take it it would be too splendid." "He never will." "Why not? Covent Garden took Sennier's opera." "I'm not a Sennier unfortunately."
We were all rather carried away, I suppose." "Carried away! By what?" "Well, it is evidently a great moment in Madame Sennier's life. One must sympathize." Charmian looked and saw two spots of color burning high up on his cheeks. His voice had suddenly quivered. "I should think so," said Mrs. Mansfield. "This evening probably means more to Madame Sennier even than to her husband."
Annie Meredith, who was to sing the big rôle in Sennier's new opera, and who was much greater as an actress than as a vocalist, had complained of the weakness of the libretto, and had attacked Madame Sennier for having made Jacques set it. Thereupon the great Henriette had lost all control of her powerful temperament.
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