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Her life, from her very cradle, had been strange and unhappy. In her childhood she had belonged to wretchedly poor people, who were' connected with the theatre in Berlin; her parents they certainly could not have been, for she was subjected by them to every possible want and misery. Her earliest recollection was of standing at the theatre-doors to beg, and of being forbidden, on pain of severe punish ment, from returning home, unless she brought with her money; to above a certain amount.
She was born with extraordinary musical faculties; fortunately, however, this was not discovered by the persons who had possession of her, early enough for her to be exhibited as an infant prodigy: to them she was useful only to beg; but many and many a night she forgot her miserable duty - forgot even the pain ful infliction which was the certain consequence of such a neglect, in listening to the glorious strains of some favourite singer, from the half-open doors of the opera. Occasionally, also, she crept in unobserved, or was permitted to enter by some good-natured, music-loving door-keeper, who, sympathising in the wretched child's passion for his favourite art, over looked the small, but otherwise all-important fact, of her having neither money nor ticket.
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1330908945
- ISBN 13 9781330908945
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages198
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