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Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rguerite: My mother is gone; At the war is my brother; One dear little sister I had, But the darling, too, is dead! The angel! the angel! Loved me, and loved me only; I waited on her night and day. How I worked for her! oh, so dearly! But those to whom we cling most nearly Are the first to be called away. Sure as ever morning came, Came her call, and I must be there! Since she could speak, she called me mother. Oh, my bird! neer for another Half so truly my heart will care! Faust is tender and sympathetic, and the im-pressionable girls heart turns more and moretoward the handsome stranger, who seems allthat a lover should be. Faust: If a second angel, made by Heaven,Could so pure, could so perfect be,She was an angel!An angel, sister to thee. Mephistopheles has succeeded in getting rid ofMartha, who vainly looks for him in the garden,and he now watches with satisfaction the lovers, a famous cast of 1863—patti, faure who are wandering among the trees in the moon- AND DI CANDIA light.
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Marguerite (alarmed) : I pray you go, the night comes on!Faust (protesting): Dear angel!Marguerite (running off): Pray you leave me!Faust (following): Ah! unkind one! to deny me!Mephistopheles: Ere the scene becomes too moving Twere best to fly! (He hides.) Martha (aside):Now be most civil!Methinks—why he has gone!My lord! my dear lord!(She goes in search of Marguerite.) Mephistopheles (reappearing) :Yes! So let her run! Ouff!Yonder jolly matron loving,Was longing, upon my word,Tenderly to wed the devil! The Tempter now sings the famous Incantation, in which he calls upon night andthe flowers to aid him in his diabolical plot against the soul of Marguerite. Invocation Mephistopheles (Oh Night, Draw Thy Curtain!) By Marcel Journet, Bass (In French) 64119 10-inch, $1.00 Stretching out his arms, the Evil One invokes the powers of Night, that its mysteriousscents and seductive charms may aid him in his work of the lovers undoing. In this statelypassage he drops for a time the satirical

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