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A Second Book of Operas

CHAPTER XI
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He implores the people who had been jeering him to lead him thither, that he may spit in her face and curse her.
Iris is asleep upon a bed in the "Green House" of the district, which needs no description.

A song, accompanied by the twanging of a samisen and the clanging of tamtams, is sung by three geishas.

Kyoto brings in Osaka to admire her beauty, and sets a high price upon it.

Osaka sends for jewels.

Iris awakes and speculates in philosophical vein touching the question of her existence.


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