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AFTER THE PERFORMANCE.
_The Inquisitive Child_. Uncle, which side won?
_Uncle_. I suppose the side that advanced across the bridges.
_Child_. Which side _would_ have won if it had been a _real_ battle?
_Uncle_. I really couldn't undertake to say, my boy.
_Child_. But which do you _think_ would have won?
_Uncle_. I suppose the side that fought best.
_Child_. But which side was _that_? (_The Uncle begins to find that
the society of an intelligent Nephew entails too severe a mental
strain to be frequently cultivated._)
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THE OPERA-GOER'S DIARY.
_Monday 23_.--Operatic world all agog to hear, and to see, _Le
Prophete_. First appearance for many years. Great things expected
of JEAN DE RESZKE as _Jean of Leyden_, and Mlle. RICHARD as _Fides_.
Great expectations not disappointed. Scene in Cathedral magnificent
as a spectacle. But scene in Cathedral between JEAN and his unhappy
mother still grander as acting. _Le Prophete_ is remarkable too, as
being an Opera without Mlle. BAUERMEISTER in it. Skating scene, with
a nice ballet, rather a frost. "Not sufficient go in it," observes
veteran Opera-goer, with book in his hand, dated eighteen hundred
and sixty something, containing a cast of characters which, he says,
though he doesn't show me the book, comprises the names of MARIO,
GRISI, VIARDOT-GARCIA, and HERR FORMES.
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