The Primadonna

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Primadonna, by F. Marion CrawfordThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The PrimadonnaAuthor: F. Marion CrawfordRelease Date: December 23, 2003 [eBook #10521]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRIMADONNA***E-text prepared by Kevin Handy, Dave Maddock, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online DistributedProofreading TeamTHE PRIMADONNAA SEQUEL TO "FAIR MARGARET"BYF. MARION CRAWFORDAUTHOR OF "SARACINESCA," "SANT' ILARIO," "FAIR MARGARET," ETC., ETC.1908[Illustration]CHAPTER IWhen the accident happened, Cordova was singing the mad scene in Lucia for the last time in that season, and she hadnever sung it better. The Bride of Lammermoor is the greatest love-story ever written, and it was nothing short ofdesecration to make a libretto of it; but so far as the last act is concerned the opera certainly conveys the impression thatthe 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 holesif she had not kept them half shut under the heavily whitened lids; her hands were chalked too, and they were like plastercasts of hands, ...