Pinkerton admits to Sharpless that he does not know whether he is really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly ’ s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace, so beautiful " that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings ".

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that " All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.

Pinkerton tells Goro to bring Butterfly to him.

Sharpless tells Pinkerton that he heard Butterfly speak, when she visited the Consulate, and he asks Pinkerton not to pluck off her delicate wings.

However, Pinkerton tells Sharpless that he will do " no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love.

" Goro re-enters to tell Pinkerton and Sharpless that Butterfly ’ s friends are coming.

Butterfly greets Pinkerton, who asks about her difficult climb up the hill.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton.

Butterfly ’ s relatives say that he ’ s like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.

Pinkerton takes Butterfly ’ s hand and leads her into the house.

From her sleeve, Butterfly brings out to show Pinkerton all of her treasures, which include only a few handkerchiefs, a mirror, a sash, and other trinkets.

Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a " gift " from the Mikado to Butterfly ’ s father, inviting him to commit seppuku.

Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: " They are the spirits of my ancestors.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

The Commissioner conducts the brief ceremony and witnesses Pinkerton and Butterfly sign the official papers.

Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts.

He stands over Butterfly, shouting his curses at her, when Pinkerton intervenes to stop him.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that the " Night is falling ", and Butterfly answers that " with it comes darkness and peace.

Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as " still the angry voice curses me.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that their money has almost run out and, if Pinkerton does not return quickly, they will suffer in a bad way.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.

" Sharpless draws a letter from his pocket and tells her, " Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton has written to me.

" Sharpless tells her that Pinkerton is perfectly well, and she says, " I am the happiest woman in Japan.

She tells him that, after Pinkerton left, Goro came to her many times " with presents to palm off this or that husband on me.

Butterfly tells Suzuki that she wants Pinkerton to see her dressed as she was on the first day " and a red poppy in my hair.

Pinkerton and Sharpless have arrived, but Pinkerton tells Suzuki not to wake Butterfly and asks how Butterfly knew that Pinkerton had arrived.

Sharpless tells Pinkerton, " Did I not tell you so?

While Pinkerton looks at the flowers, the picture of himself and the room that has remained unchanged for three years, Sharpless tells Suzuki that they can do nothing for Butterfly but that they must help her child.

Sharpless tells her that Pinkerton ’ s new wife, Kate, wants to care for the child.

At the meeting Yamadori tells Cho-Cho-San that Pinkerton only thought of the marriage as temporary as was common in America, and suggests that he would eventually divorce her and the baby could well end up in an orphanage.

To spare her feelings, Sharpless tells her that he had indeed written Pinkerton who was on his way to see her but had many duties to perform, and then his ship was suddenly ordered to China.

She recognizes Pinkerton and points him out to her friends, and all bow down before him.

Pinkerton thanks her for the compliment but cuts her off as she continues to make others.

One of her cousins says that Goro first offered Pinkerton to her, but she refused.

Pinkerton consoles her.

Pinkerton admits that it is true but explains, " Do you know why?

Sharpless begins to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly: " My friend, will you find that lovely flower of a girl …" Butterfly cannot control her happiness, as he continues, " since that happy times, three years have passed, and Butterfly perhaps does not remember me anymore.

Suzuki goes into the garden to meet Pinkerton ’ s new wife, while Sharpless reminds Pinkerton, " I told you, didn ’ t I?

Pinkerton returned with reams of material that Atwater told him to reduce to a 3 × 5 index card, telling him, " I'm giving you one thing.

Therefore, its chief designer, Dr. John Pinkerton, designed the machine to have multiple input / output buffers.

" Sharpless takes his glass of whisky and offers a toast to Pinkerton ’ s family at home, to which Pinkerton adds, " and to the day when I will have a real wedding and marry a real American bride.

Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War.

Fighting spread as far as Pitreavie on the far side of Inverkeithing and was said to have been particularly bloody: reputedly the Pinkerton Burn ran red with blood for days and the heaps of the dead resembled stooks in a harvest field.

Pinkerton has been influential on alternative rock ; acts including Manchester Orchestra, Yellowcard, Saves the Day, Taking Back Sunday, The Ataris, Thursday, the Used, The Brobecks, Dashboard Confessional, The Promise Ring, The Long Goodbye, and Rye Coalition have cited it as an influence.

The Pinkerton Burn was said to have run red with blood for days afterwards.

This new combination meant that the tobacco businesses, STA ( Svenska Tobaks ), EBAS ( Elisabeth Bas ) and Pinkerton, would have an international network and thus improve the efficiency of marketing, sales and distribution.

" In Film Journal International, Frank Lovece mused that the film's condemnation " by politicians and pundits from James Pinkerton to Hillary Clinton is understandable and completely predictable: They can't not comment, so when they do, they have to play to their audiences.

Bootlegs of their live shows have been available online since 1997 and played a small role in Weezer's resurgence following their second album, Pinkerton.

Wanted posters are usually produced by a police department or other public government body for display in a public place, such as on a physical bulletin board or in the lobby of a post office, but in ages past wanted posters have also been produced by vigilante groups, railway security, private agencies such as Pinkerton, or by express companies that have sustained a robbery.

P. Butler and K. Pinkerton have outlined a procedure which sets the following two equations together:

There is no mention of Annie Thayne in any reports about the gang from the day, and Pinkerton detectives, who have historically been the best source for the movements of gang members, have nothing indicating a relationship with any woman other than Etta Place after 1899.