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The Diamond Mine (short story)

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violinist who was her second husband. After he had an affair with their maid, Ruzenka, she filed for divorce and never saw him again. She is now set to marry Jerome Brown, a financier.
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Aboard a ship, Cressida Garnet, a soprano, meets a cousin of her late first husband's. She tells him of her love affair with Blasius Bouchalka, a
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Opera music runs through the story, with direct allusions to
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Index

Short story
Willa Cather
Short story
McClure's
Willa Cather
McClure's
Bohemian
RMS Titanic
organist
Puccini
Massenet
Manon
Janáček
Šárka
Schubert
Marche Militaire
Mozart
Don Giovanni
The Song of the Lark
Random House
Willa Cather: A Literary Life
Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World
ISBN
978-0-8139-3360-3
Archived
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Willa Cather
Alexander's Bridge

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