"Of the operas," Peter corrected.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Dismissed with but slight encouragement, the Baroness tries her fortune at the office of one of the smaller operas; but since she presents herself here with her daughter without introduction of any kind, the official seated behind a dusty writing-table has no time to devote to her, all that he has being absorbed in a quarrel with two ladies who have just applied to him for the ninth time,-"yes," he exclaims, with a despairing flourish of his hands, "for the ninth time this month, for free tickets!"
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
He talked rather more quickly than usual about the possibility that some of the operas of Mozart would be played in the summer.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf