Love and the Opera.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 54, 27 January 1883, Page 3

Love and the Opera.

- - ■» — — : ■ At the Opera, nightly beaming lorestruck glances, from the stalls ; he, a young man from the country, gazed upon the mimic halls. There m silken ' *hose and doublet, perky plume and defbpnnair, .; nightly posed his gay enslaver, tall and plump and passing fair. What to him was Tambour- Major, wliat to him the motley scene? Save w'uen she m smiling favor, trod the boards with grace serene. True she was but m the ballet, and of music knew no note.: 'but what to him was brightest Bally, or trills from nightingalie throat ? She was 1 comely, limbs most shapely. and he worshipped form divine ; gazed m rapture; wondered sadly; sighing "Ah, were she but mine 1" Introduction had been easy, gifts he lavished without stint ; found her coy;, sometimes yielding then again with heart; of flint. , Cynics warned him "She's a sringer;" but ; . the youth he heeded not ; still hoped on, loved on, doated on her ; like another Claude Melnotte. At last came the hour of parting,— there was bustling too / and fro; hither, thither, roamed the lover; hoping that his fair enslaver, • relenting, would 1 nbt'from him go. On the deck : beneath 1 the awning ; still he pleaded < ( be thiou mine? she distrait and anxious waiting heeded not his plaintive whine. Suddenly^there came peering, form and features or a "pro" who had evidently been beering, .for, his tones were chick and slow. " Sal " said he 'fwheresh th' the baby y think, you'd: bettrish go below." " : iA.ll right iold man, good bye dearie, that' smy husband don't you know ?"— " Asmodeus " 'm the&Z; Mail. ; , :,