Author: Edward Fitzball

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781397263643

Excerpt from Maritana: Opera in Three Acts At the commencement of the Second Act, we find D011 Caesar asleep in prison, while the boy Lazarillo watches near him. Don Caasar is condemned to die at seven, and the hands of the clock point to five as he awakes but two hours' l1fe remain to him yet he is gay, and ridicules all attempts to condole with him. Don J ose now enters, and, professing friendship for Don Caesar, makes a proposition to him whereby his wish to die a. Soldier' s death may be gratified on one condition - namely, that he shall marry! The alternative is to be hanged like a dog, or be married, and afterwards shot like a gentleman. For the last - named privilege, Don Caesar consents to suffer matrimony for an hour and three quarters. The Don assumes gay apparel for his wedding, and partakes of a banquet 111 honor of his nuptials. The preparations for his execution in military style proceed, but Lazarillo adroitly abstracts the messengers of death. At length, the hour arrives, and Don Caesar is led forth to be shot, as the scene 'changes to a saloon in the Palace Montefiori, in which a festival is at its height. In the midst of the revelry, a volley of musketry is heard at a distance this startles the guests, but the dance is soon resumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.