She did not, therefore, repent; but her very volition seemed gone.
On their arrival at Paris, Viola saw her companion--the faithful wife--no more.

Ere three weeks were passed, husband and wife had ceased to live.
And now, for the first time, the drudgeries of this hard earth claimed the beautiful Neapolitan.

In that profession, giving voice and shape to poetry and song, in which her first years were passed, there is, while it lasts, an excitement in the art that lifts it from the labour of a calling.

Hovering between two lives, the Real and Ideal, dwells the life of music and the stage.

But that life was lost evermore to the idol of the eyes and ears of Naples.