This may be the beginning of a side-street romance, eh ?" And she chuckled at the word and turned her nose into a small snow-capped hill.
IV Pagliacci was to be followed as usual by "Cavalleria." It was the swan song of the opera season.
In a part that he acted as well as he sang, Caruso had been permitted finally to retire, wringing wet, to his dressing room.

With all the dignity of a man of genuine feeling and sensitiveness he had taken call after call on the fall of the curtain and stood bent almost double before the increasing breakers of applause.

Once more he had done his best in a role which demanded everything that he had of voice and passion, comedy and tragedy.

Once more, although his soul was with his comrades in battle, he had played the fool and broken his heart for the benefit of his good friends in front.
In her box on the first tier Mrs.Cooper Jekyll, in a dress imaginatively designed to display a considerable quantity of her figure, was surrounded by a party which attracted many glasses.

Alice Palgrave was there, pretty and scrupulously neat, even perhaps a little prim, her pearls as big as marbles.