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... story of the poor artist's model Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and Trilby, Florida were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) came to be calle...

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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell ...

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...ryone I have spoken to has his or her own vision of Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. My vision is an amalgam of persons known to and/or admired by me... ... had heard the commotion as the horse was brought back to the stables at the Opera Garnier, where I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horse... ...s an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Friesian. ... ...your own horses. You will find him in a stall on the fifth basement of the opera. Come alone, and do not dare to tell others of this mission. O.G... ... tub to my room. I undressed and settled into the bath, using rose-scented soap that I purchased in a small shop nearby. After bathing, I stepped ... ...oil into the water and undressed. I luxuriated in the tub before finding my soap and scrubbing my skin. I then washed my hair and rinsed it in the ... ...nted water. He made his way over to one side, where an alcove held mirror, soap and straight razor. He lathered chin and cheeks and shaved away th... ...hter. He wrapped his arms around me then and massaged the sandalwood-scented soap into my wet hair, kissing my forehead gently as he did so. “Lady’s ... ...d do anything for you. Now, lean back.” He supported my back and rinsed the soap from my hair in the steaming tub. The scent of sandalwood ... his ...

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..., in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on an operating table, among blood spattered bandages and slab... ...!" My mother froze and then, bending towards me, she tousled my hair, her hand all wet and soapy. I shut my eyes and opened them repeatedly to repe... ...ent demise – "From tomorrow, find yourself another place!" A distant mannish voice trilled opera arias. It approached, bathing the room and us, and... ... come out of it." I suggest to him to address some his missives to the beauties on the TV soaps. He sign up to my charade enthusiastically and ins...

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...stions in psychology, anthropology and philosophy is whether humans have instincts. It is clear that animals have them. But if we are going to operat... ...she was totally a victim of her psychological drives and did not have free will, is she responsible? Then on the other hand what if the casino operat... ... unconscious psychological motivations against the casino owners‘ unconscious motivations? Is it her intellectual free will against the casino operat... ...‖ is generally a more positive and socially beneficial motivation. One may have the ambition to develop a business, to be an athlete, to be an opera ... ...ey shouldn‘t act adult-like, be overtly sexual or know-it- alls. When we look at your American television, we cringe. The things you do to sell soap a... ... may be stress producing. A doctor may feel a certain stress in having to manage a medical practice or deciding on the necessity of a serious operat...

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...btedly he was not the first): his life became an admission that there was no operator's manual for any man's life; but when he saw couples with their ... ...ery, their small capitalistic ventures with large levels of greed, and their soap opera, small-life concerns; but she could not conceptualize why thei... ...their small capitalistic ventures with large levels of greed, and their soap opera, small-life concerns; but she could not conceptualize why their myt... ...d the two of them; and they sank into a soothing bubble bath. Gabriele made soap castles for her son, and smacked top stories off of them, which caus... ...New York State to have germless plates. Yours also have an extra coating of soap on them to kill any forthcoming germs that might land upon them. Tha... ...it, she knew better than to forsake it. She had her distasteful coffee in a soapy cup, and once it was drunk she was pleased that by her compassiona... ...alistic institution. How could she do functions that would keep it nice and operative looking? How could she empty its trash, and change its burnt o... .... "You thought you would put a smart one on me. Hide it behind the laundry soap when I'm not looking. Nothing gets by me." On their way home throug... ... if not benevolent influences to make him special. "There will be no battery operated cars for this boy," she often told herself, for they would lead...

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...ed on in the warehouse of human trash, to take a shower and not steal the soap, or in more crass mandates, to show her Louisiana identification card ... ...when not having the answers? But then, if parents did not have answers, as operator manuals were not attached to the necks of babies, then man was no... ...not interested in arresting you either. You are free to go, but go is the operative word," said the officer. "Go as you please, and if I see you co... ...st food restaurant to swish hot water into her mouth and to spread liquid soap onto some of her body like a balm. In the toilet of the Jack In The B... ...ugly in her twisting spine that she is hidden away like the Phantom of the Opera. Let him philander. There was a time when I used to believe that m... ... Denuded; clothes washed diminutively in a plastic bucket with a bar of soap, a mop handle raising them to drip from the rod of the shower curtai... ... So did you. And you are the one who made the final choice to have those operations.” “I know. It is true. You aren’t to blame, Charles. And...

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...lornness, the hes of many ages--was the background to advertisements about soap, beer, condoms, and cars. Repulsed by the foul language, she was trans... ...ing filth. He had married Noppawan for truth. Thinking this, with a bar of soap in his hands, he gloated in the marital bond and spoke to her. - No, n... ... was no different from any other sweet, diminishing thing. Rinsing off the soap it seemed to him that surely love sustained itself briefly on finite f... ...just the thing for its mental health. Also a good airing out is as good as soap and water. That's always been my theory." The Laotian grinned mischiev... ...trination this was the most frequently used program which, when lacking an operator's manual for one's life, even iconoclasts like him would switch on... ...htly (his playboy activities, the television commercials, and a month on a soap opera, which came about from his slight fame as a renowned artist and ... ...(his playboy activities, the television commercials, and a month on a soap opera, which came about from his slight fame as a renowned artist and an at... ...an walking together and it sickened him. Nawin got up and went to the coin operated telephone. He dialed his home telephone number numerous times and ...

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...cie C. McKeever 20 Kelly opened his eyes in time to see some young Latin—a soap-opera-hunk-looking motherfucker—lean forward from his bedside chair an... .... McKeever 20 Kelly opened his eyes in time to see some young Latin—a soap-opera-hunk-looking motherfucker—lean forward from his bedside chair and rea... ...k stare. He finally shrugged. "Anyway, you got caught up in a buy-and-bust operation." "With friends like that...." "I agree." "So, you're in the habi... ...acting. He knew the routine, was intimately acquainted with how the police operated. They wouldn't take any missing persons report serious until twent... ...own heart, squeezed her eyes shut and took a deep breath as if she were an opera singer preparing to belt out a thunderous note for her finale. Moment... ... couldn't argue with her there. It seemed obsession had been Dagny's modus operandi in most areas of her life. She seemed to have gotten off on the do...

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...iest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, cheese, dried fish, soap, varnish, paraffin and other solids and fluids that she came to know perfectly by their smells without consenting to know them by their names....

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...s cast, the duskiest corner of a shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the presence of hams, chee... ...at six. All Span- ish lace. Pearls. The full length.” That was the first; it had no signature. “Lady Agnes Orme, Hyde Park Place. Impossible to-night,... ...tions and revenges. She recognised quite as much those of her sex whom she would have liked to help, to warn, to rescue, to see more of; and that alte...

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...s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass....

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... removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass. The day was warm; he was heated with walking, and he repeatedl... ...ed, I can take up the cards again. I dare say that a twelvemonth hence the operation will be reversed. The pendulum will swing back again. I shall be ... ...!” and M. Nioche slapped his purse tenderly before he stowed it away. “The operation doesn’t take place every day.” “Well, your young men are very sha... ...ration for Parisian economies. His own economic genius was so entirely for operations on a larger scale, and, to move at his ease, he needed so impera... ...truth is that they made a fuss about her milliner’s bill or refused her an opera-box.” Newman looked from Tristram to his wife with a certain mistrust... .... “Leather? I don’t like that. Wash-tubs are better. I prefer the smell of soap. I hope at least they made your fortune.” She rattled this off with th... ... seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap—strong- smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me th...

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................. 25 CHAPTER IV: ?THE PILLAR OF SALT? ............................................................................. 38 CHAPTER V: AT THE OPERA ............................................................................................ 45 CHAPTER VI: TALK .............................................................................................................

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...PTER V V V V V: A : A : A : A : AT T T T T THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OPERA ERA ERA ERA ERA ........................................................ ...e dregs of carol-singing. “While Shep-ep-ep-ep-herds watched—” He held his soapy brush suspended for a minute. They called this singing! His mind flit... ...APTER CHAPTER V V V V V A A A A AT T T T T THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OP THE OPERA ERA ERA ERA ERA A FRIEND had given Josephine Ford a box at the opera ... .... Few women can sit in the front of a big box, on a crowded and full-swing opera night, without thrilling and dilating. There is an intoxication in be... ...Not being fashionable, they were in the box when the over- ture began. The opera was V erdi—Aida. If it is impossible to be in an important box at the... ...pera was V erdi—Aida. If it is impossible to be in an important box at the opera without experiencing the strange intoxication of social pre-eminence,... ...n his mind. He wanted her—ha, didn’t he! But the husband sat there, like a soap- stone Chinese monkey, greyish-green. So, it would have to be another ...

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...” as the robbers’ door did to her colleague, Ali Baba (Hornbuckle), in the operatic piece in which she was so famous. Beer was Mr. Crump’s beverage, d... ...r. Eglantine, the celebrated perruquier and perfumer of Bond Street, whose soaps, ra- zors, and patent ventilating scalps are know throughout Eu- rope... ... as far as accepting eau- de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Greenwich, and a piece of real Genoa velvet for a... ...s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levison, have their respect... ...ted here. Among them, on the entresol (between the splendid saloons of the Soap Company on the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting ... ...the first floor, with their statue of Britannia presenting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western B... ...and a velvet waistcoat. He was a member of a club; had an admission to the opera, and knew every face behind the scenes; and was in the habit of using... ...onstant visitor at that gentleman’s emporium; dealing with him largely for soaps and articles of perfumery, which he had at an exceedingly low rate. I... ...uldn’t get along, and would see these lovely ladies before he stirred. The operation on Mr. Walker’s whiskers being concluded, he was arranging his to...

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...ike Shakespeare in Germany, but those of the pit and gallery, too. 39 A Tramp Abroad Another time, we went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree—otherw... ...s, it seemed to me that I could almost resuffer the torments which had gone before, in order to be so healed again. There is where the deep ingenuity ... ... of the operatic idea is betrayed. It deals so largely in pain that its scattered de- lights are prodigiously augmented by the contrasts. A pretty air... ... suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. I have since found out that there is nothing the Germans like so much... ...a. They like it, not in a mild and moderate way, but with their whole hearts. This is a legiti- mate result of habit and education. Our nation will li... ...the an angel with. By and by we perceived what those super-delicate colors, and their continuous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one see... ...uous play and movement, reminded us of; it is what one sees in a soap-bubble that is drifting along, catching changes of tint from the objects it pass... ...jects it passes. A soap- bubble is the most beautiful thing, and the most exquisite, in nature; that lovely phantom fabric in the sky was sugges- tiv... ...ntom fabric in the sky was sugges- tive of a soap-bubble split open, and spread out in the sun. 257 A Tramp Abroad I wonder how much it would take to...

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...elict could ever have held goodly merchandise or served a high emprize, co-operated in some defence, held up the trappings of a throne, or borne away ... ... or fifteen salons between eight at night and three in the morning. At the opera he talked with journalists, for he stood high in their favor; a perpe... ...y be- fore he came to the house, and to wash his hands with good cleansing soap; not to swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of s... ... glory of the thing, and to show her the finest that was to be seen—to the Opera, where they were playing “The Chinese Laborer.” Elisabeth thought “th... ...o ponderous a personality that no scalpel could cut deep enough to let the operator see into him. His severe studies, in which he had shown the patien... ...all were asleep in the place Royale, Monsieur des Lupeaulx was leaving the Opera for the rue Duphot. This particular Wednesday was one of Madame Rabou... ...gone too far, and ran to him, seized him just as he was, all lathered with soap-suds, and kissed him tenderly. “Dear Xavier, don’t be vexed,” she said... ... wife of Mohammed?” She began to laugh; and Rabourdin laughed too, for the soapsuds were clinging to Celestine’s lips, and her voice had the tones of ...

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...ith placards of a bull-fight, to take place the next evening (there was no opera that sea- son); but it was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theat... ...horses; squads of priests, habited after the fashion of Don Basilio in the opera, are demurely pacing to and fro; professional beggars run shrieking a... ...gh there is every gaiety and amusement in the town, a comfort- able little opera, a good old library filled full of good old books (none of your works... ...from honest Germany, where there is beer and aes- thetic conversation, and operas at a small cost. The shabbi- ness of this place actually beats Irela... ...he thing like the wig is dashed into your face and eyes, covered over with soap, and for five min- utes you are drowned in lather:you can’t see, the s... ... can’t see, the suds are frothing over your eye-balls; you can’t hear, the soap is whiz- zing into your ears; can’t gasp for breath, Miss MacWhirter’s... ...s down your throat with half a pailful of suds in an in- stant—you are all soap. Wicked children in former days have jeered you, exclaiming, “How are ... ... children in former days have jeered you, exclaiming, “How are you off for soap?”Y ou little knew what saponacity was till you entered a Turkish bath.... ...s much inferior to the method employed in the capital. At Cairo, after the soap, you are plunged into a sort of stone coffin, full of water which is a...

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...e a commodious and gay Theatre—or had, for it is burned down now—where the opera was always preceded by a vaudeville, in which (as usual) everybody, d... ...an to mingle up the present scene with the crater of V esuvius, the French Opera, the Coliseum at Rome, Dolly’s Chop house in London, and all the farr... .... The chemist had no boxes of ginger beer powders, no beautifying sea side soaps and washes, no attractive scents; nothing but his great goggle eyed ... ...on by means of action, they were no bet ter than the chorus at an Italian Opera in England—and would have been worse if such a thing were possible. M... ...ffective, and as a Detective Police were very loose and uncertain in their operations, they remain with some people a supersti tion to the present da... ...ook strangely on the truckle beds. The sight of whitewash and the smell of soap—two things we seem by this time to have parted from in infancy—make th... ...s me to wash on a freemason’s apron without the trimming: when I asked for soap, gives me a stony hearted something white, with no more lather in it t... ...indrical press, upon a leaf of thin paper, streaming from a plunge bath of soap and water? Wasn’t the paper impression daintily spread, by a light fin... ...the means of raising the carcass and keeping it suspended during the after operation of dressing— 220 Reprinted Pieces and with hooks on which carcas...

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...plied Madame Mollot. “Why, this morning I was so puzzled that I got out my opera-glass—” “Bravo!” cried the superintendent of ponts et chaussees, who ... ...r a commercial traveller.” X 62 The Deputy of Arcis THE REVELATIONS OF AN OPERA-GLASS ANTONIN GOULARD left the little group of young ladies, in which... ...ave sometimes seen in exhibitions of industrial products.’ So I fetched my opera- glass to examine it. But, good gracious! what do you think I saw? Ab... ...!—if he did I’d leave him. He dyes his hair and that’s bad enough.’” “Your opera-glass magnifies,” said Achille Pigoult to Ma- dame Mollot, who laughe... ...and either would suit me. I love Paris; and I want a house, a carriage, an opera-box, etc., in Paris.” “That’ s right,” said Vinet. “When people dream... ...e all intellectual activity spends itself on the mak- ing of pickled pork, soap-grease, stockings, and cotton night- caps. Dorlange, whom I shall not ...

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...- man from Grasse, with whom he began, on equal shares, the manufacture of soaps, essences, and eau-de-cologne. His connection with this man lasted on... ...xplained the nature of the skin and the cuticle, and showed that a certain soap, or a certain paste, often produced effects quite con- trary to those ... ... often produced effects quite con- trary to those expected of them, if the soap and the paste toned up a skin which needed relaxing, or relaxed a skin... ...y kind; while the Double Paste of Sultans and the Carminative Balm are two operative compounds, of a motive power which acts without risk upon the int... ...re of those who mingle busi- ness with pleasure, and make the foyer of the opera-house a branch of the Bourse,—in short, the T urcarets of the period.... ...ve it to him, du Tillet, with permission to stake it bravely on some large operation, either at the Bourse, or in one of the thousand enterprises of p... ...hom married women draw at sight for their amusements,—a country jaunt, the opera, the Montagnes- Beaujon, et caetera. Pillerault was made happy by the... ...end,” said Gaudissart, “you don’t know the provincials; there’s a surgical operation called by that name, and they are such stupids that they’ll think...

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...ed dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; not a mor... ...s by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl. The humble calling of her female parent Miss Sharp never allude... ...the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the opera, laboriously attired in tights and a cocked hat. 24 V anity Fair On ... ...op by evincing the deepest sympathy in the raspberry-jam preserving, which operation was then going on in the Housekeeper’s room; she persisted in cal... ...ng—as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings ... ...y sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles. There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at D... ...He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to ...

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...ed, then why allow of any lingering or doubt- ful force to what must often operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which carries with it any legal f... ...r section of the church; but in that year 1834, such a prestige did really operate; and this must be received as one of the reasons which partially ex... ...s the festal color, and more especially in Palestine, where the indigenous soaps, and other cleaning materials, gave them peculiar advantages for adop... ...s general example. But his false principles have a worse conta- gion. They operate not only through the general haze and halo which invests a shining ... ...nd that was rea- son enough why no new pleasure, had any been found, would operate as such for him. The weariness of spirit, and the pov- erty of plea... ...is own gifts confound;’ 10 but with this mighty differ- ence—that Time co-operated in the one case with extrava- gant folly in the individual, and in... ... there never had been a richer. And thus collapses the whole fable, like a soap-bubble punctured by a surgeon’s probe. II. Yet even this specimen of P... ...a pig (but in this instance a wild boar of the forest) whose tail has been soaped. (See Lord Clarendon, not his History but his Life.) What the Birmin...