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The Primadonna
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Title: The Primadonna
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: December 23, 2003 [eBook #10521]
Language: English
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THE PRIMADONNA
A SEQUEL TO "FAIR MARGARET"
BY
F. MARION CRAWFORD
AUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "SANT' ILARIO," "FAIR MARGARET," ETC., ETC.
1908
CHAPTER I
When the accident happened, Cordova was singing the mad scene in Lucia for the last time in that season, and she had never sung it better. The Bride of Lammermoor is the greatest love-story ever written, and it was nothing short of desecration to make a libretto of it; but so far as the last act is concerned the opera certainly conveys the impression that the heroine is a raving lunatic. Only a crazy woman could express feeling in such an unusual way.
Cordova's face was nothing but a mask of powder, in which her handsome brown eyes would have looked like two holes if she had not kept them half shut under the heavily wh