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| 2 | 136 | View more quotes about both">Both are fine companies, and either, in her view, would have been capable of mounting splendid productions of the work performed. |
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| 2 | 133 | It had been a performance of Richard Strauss's Salomé, based on a short story by Oscar Wilde. |
| 2 | 134 | The lead role had been sung by a famous Italian soprano, a visiting artist. |
| 2 | 135 | The performance had been by the older, and most famous, of the two major opera companies in the city. |
| 2 | 136 | Both are fine companies, and either, in her view, would have been capable of mounting splendid productions of the work performed. |
| 2 | 137 | She wonders if the preceding few sentences will be excised from the manuscript, as perhaps too revealing, or if they, perhaps in their amusement, will permit them to remain, perhaps as an intriguing, almost insolent detail. |
| 2 | 138 | She does not know. |
| 2 | 139 | She was alone, as she often was, not that she did not have friends, colleagues, professional associates, and such. |