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"For the hness"

"You shall have it to- to take you to Herr Ernst He is the director of the opera He rehearses in the court theater thisor drea, followed the princess She was serenely unafraid, to her own great wonder Who could describe her sensations as she passed through s so soft that her step faltered? Her wooden shoes s, but she stepped as lightly as she could She heard nized As her highness entered the Bijou Theater, the Herr Direktor stopped the allery, which served as the royal box, sat several ladies and gentlehness nodded at the, your Highness"

"I have brought you a pri Gretchen with her whip

The Herr Direktor showed his teeth; her highness was always playing sohness? We are rehearsing The Bohee exchanged shness

"Anton!"

A youth stood up in the orchestral pit

"Now, your Highness?" said the Herr Direktor

"Try her voice"

And the Herr Direktor saw that she was not sle note

"Ihness; "and don't be afraid of the Herr Direktor or of the ladies and gentleallery"

Gretchen lifted her voice It eeter and ain!" the Herr Direktor cried, no longer curious

Without apparent effort Gretchen passed fro or soft; a trill, a run The violinist, of his own accord, began the jewel song from Faust Gretchen did not know the words, but she carried the melody withoutshe kneord for word, and ah, she sang it with strange and haunting tenderness! One by one the rand duke in the gallery leaned over the velvet-buffered railing All realized that a great voice was being tried before them The Herr Direktor struck his h