Note 9 — MEMOIRS OF GARCIA AND RUBINI.
Reading edition
If they omitted their roulades, it must have been for the purpose of enabling Rubini to introduce his own, for no singer was ever so absurdly prodigal of them as this. And as to his ‘elocutionary style,’ he must have acquired it very recently; he shewed no symptom of it so late as May last.—Editor.