Sealed Lips — page 13: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. CHAPTER I. AN HONORED COMPOSER. The applause was long and loud, the curtain was raised several times with that docile facility which distinguishes a theater’s drop curtain, especially on evenings of a first representation. A new chef d’ceuvre, “Constantin XII.,” words by a manufac- turer of librettos now in fashion, the music by Antoine Godefroid, had just been brought out, and scored a perfect success upon our greatest of lyric stages, The Opera. In the house, in the lobbies, and on the staircase two thousand people were talking as they went out. ' The sparkling eyes of the women endeavored to read even then, in the countenances of others, the triumph of their beauty more than half vailed under lace or hidden in softly caressing furs. The men gave their hats little caressing blows, shook hands GOmichboo KS (C O)