The words of a follower become the awesome prophecy of a high priest.

The trio in _Orphee_ with its tender love and expressions of perfect happiness fairly trembles with accents of sorrow.

The music had been written for an entirely different situation which justified them.

Massenet has told us that he borrowed right and left from his unpublished score, _La Coupe du Roi de Thule_.

That is what Gluck did with his _Elena e Paride_ which had little success.