The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring

part in aristocratic society, and be snubbed into the knowledge that

only as a millionaire could he ever hope to bring that society to his feet and buy himself a beautiful and refined wife. His choice is forced on him. He forswears love as thousands of us forswear it every day; and in a moment the gold is in his grasp, and he disappears in the depths, leaving the water-fairies vainl...