Soon afterwards Mimi ran away from her mother's house, and she appeared on the stage at St.Laurent's Fair.

Being unknown, she had no difficulty in finding a lover who took her for a maiden.

I found her very pretty on the stage.
"I did not know," I said to her, "that you were a musician." "I am a musician about as much as all my companions, not one of whom knows a note of music.

The girls at the opera are not much more clever, and in spite of that, with a good voice and some taste, one can sing delightfully." I advised her to invite Patu to supper, and he was charmed with her.

Some time afterwards, however, she came to a bad end, and disappeared.
The Italian comedians obtained at that time permission to perform parodies of operas and of tragedies.