Bonanni's

Bonanni's, and the quiet dignity and courage of his behaviour under circumstances that might almost have driven a sensitive man out of his senses.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Madame Bonanni's hand had disappeared within the furs again, after she had ascertained that the two tears were not going to run down her cheeks.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Bonanni's house from the others on the same side, and he noticed an extremely smart brougham that stood just before the door.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

In a loft on the stage left a man was working a lime-light moon behind a sheet of blue glass in a frame; the chorus of old retainers in grey stood huddled together in semi-darkness by a fly, listening to the tenor and waiting to hear Madame Bonanni's note when she should come out.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Madame Bonanni's motherly but eagle eye detected the tiny beads on his brow.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Madame Bonanni's proceedings had made an impression on her which it would be hard to forget, and she sat silent for a while, not tasting what followed.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Madame Bonanni's visitors usually sat down, and if so, on what.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

In five minutes she would be ringing the bell at Madame Bonanni's door.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

She saw Madame Bonanni's cadaverous maid, too, standing motionless and ready if wanted, and looking at her with a sort of inscrutable curiosity; for the retired prima donna had insisted upon doing Margaret the signal service of passing on to her one of the most accomplished theatrical dressers in

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Bonanni's dressing-room at the Opéra, but she had no intention of missing the appointment.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881