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"In the key of E flat," he answered sternly. She began. "Is that right?" "Yes, that's right. You see that you can still sing at sight. I don't suppose you find many prima donnas who can." With her arm on his shoulder they sat together, playing and singing the music with which Ulick had interpreted the tale of "Connla and the Fairy Maiden."
It was long past the lunch hour when the prima donna and the prize-fighter, properly embellished, were snapped on the copy hook. The prima donna had chattered in French; the prize-fighter had jabbered in slang; but the charming old maid, who spoke Milwaukee English, was to make better copy than a whole chorus of prima donnas, or a ring full of fighters. Copy!
Praise from the old is little to the young; yet let me say that I have wandered east and west, north and south; have seen the Georgian and Sicilian maids, have seen the dark-haired girls of Naples, and the donnas of Madrid; yet never did these aged eyes rest on a finer form or face than yours, my daughter." The gypsy girl smiled. "Ay," said the old woman, "now you look lovelier than ever.
The Bishop said that night while Rachel was singing that if the world of sinful, diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the gospel preached to it by consecrated prima donnas and professional tenors and altos and bassos, he believed it would hasten the coming of the Kingdom quicker than any other one force.
Somebody may have left her a fortune, you know. Her only reason for singing was that she was poor. 'Nonsense! cried Schreiermeyer, with a sort of suppressed yell. 'It is all bosh! Somebody has offered her more money, and you know who it is! You shall tell me! He was in a violent passion by this time, or seemed to be. 'You come here, suggesting and interfering with my prima donnas!
It is a thing that is without parallel. I have a company such as no one has ever before gathered together on one stage. I have eminent prima donnas who are quite willing to sing second and third parts without caring what I pay them, or whether I pay them or not. I know the musical world. All I can say is that the thing is unexampled, and I can not comprehend it.
With these ships, she obtained much magnificent dress, belonging to the proud Castilian officers and their stately ladies velvets and brocades, stiff with woven jewels and broideries of gold, with which she went bravely dressed for the rest of her life. And the Spanish Dons and Donnas, what did they do, robbed of their splendid apparel?
When she drives out in her caleche they impede its progress with their welcomes; and when she appears at the theatre, the prima donnas are forgotten. He little knew what literal truth he spoke of the dauphin on that occasion." "What do you mean?" asked the empress, hastily. "I know by the expression of your face that you have something unpleasant to tell."
The dazzling novelties, that come trumpeted with all the cunning speculators' arts, debauch us somewhat from our wholesome, quiet love of pure, high music for its own sake, and lead the public into little short-lived fanaticisms about certain prima donnas, baritones, or tenors, and about music chiefly made to show off the singer, full of the commonplaces that he loves to make "effect" in, fanaticisms alternating with blase indifference.
"Prima donnas of the Alcasar are not usually so sensitive," broke out the visitor, with a laugh. The woman sprang to her feet, and in the haste overturned the table with its glittering baubles. "Go! go!" she fiercely exclaimed. "The compact between you and me is sacred. Another word, and I reveal all." White as any ghost, he started up, and, without uttering a sound, slunk away.
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