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

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

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.

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

" Butterfly replies that she does not want to say the words, " for fear of dying at hearing them!

When he arrives, he will call " Butterfly " from a distance, but she will not answer, partly for fun and partly not to die from the excitement of the first meeting.

At this, Butterfly hears Goro laugh, and she whispers to Sharpless that Goro is a bad man.

Goro tells Sharpless that Butterfly thinks that she is still married.

Butterfly turns triumphantly to Suzuki and asks that she serve tea.

" Sharpless continues, " If she still loves me, if she awaits me, I place myself in your hands so that you may carefully and considerately prepare her …" Butterfly exclaims, " He is coming!

Butterfly cries that, if Pinkerton never returned, she would go back to entertaining people with her songs, or, better, die.

" Suzuki enters, pulling Goro with her, and she tells Butterfly, " He buzzes around, the snake.

Then Butterfly sees that the ship is the Abraham Lincoln, and she tells Suzuki, " They were all lying!

" Butterfly dons the same dress that she wore as a bride, while Suzuki dresses her child.

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.

Later in the decade she performed in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.

Grayson had a lifelong dream of being an opera star, and she appeared in a number of operas in the 1960s, such as La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.

As of 2009, she has been at work on an EP, titled My Journey to Fearless: The Black Butterfly.

Another prominent African-American, the film actress Thelma ( Butterfly ) McQueen, moved with her family from her birthplace of Tampa, Florida to live on Cottage Row in Babylon, where she went on to graduate from Babylon High School and then pursued her acting career before later attending several universities and attaining a degree in political science.

* Julia Butterfly Hill, an activist in Humboldt County, California became known for her 738 day sit ( from December 10, 1997 until December 18, 1999 ) in a, 600-year-old Coast Redwood tree she named Luna.

In Obsidian Butterfly she is also studying Kenpo Karate.

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 ".

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.

Butterfly reads the inscription on her father ’ s knife: " Who cannot live with honor must die with honor.

Butterfly sees Yamadori and asks him if he is not going to give up pursuing her, because " You have already had many different wives.

Finally, Butterfly tells Kate, " I will give my child to her only if he comes himself.

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

In the meantime, Sharpless gives up trying to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly, and he puts the letter back in his pocket.

Butterfly stands, sees Suzuki and tells her to close up the house, because it is too light and spring-like.

Butterfly caterpillars have three pairs of true legs from the thoracic segments and up to 6 pairs of prolegs arising from the abdominal segments.

" Butterfly Garden " is an indoor butterfly conservatory which lets visitors walk through gardens and meadows and watch the butterflies up close.

Theories in physics like the Butterfly effect from chaos theory open up the possibility of a type of distributed parameter systems in causality.

Shortly after the release of Darkhorse the band broke up in 2003, citing amongst other things, pressure from their record company for a " Butterfly " follow-up.

Outside of his work with Tribe, Q-Tip produced for such artists as Nas (" One Love ", from Illmatic, 1994 ), Mobb Deep (" Give up the Goods ( Just Step )", " Temperature's Rising ", and " Drink Away the Pain ", from The Infamous, 1995 ) and R & B singers Mariah Carey (" Honey ", from Butterfly, 1997 ) and Whitney Houston (" Fine ", from Whitney: The Greatest Hits ).

Kendig has the aria " Un Bel Dì Vedremo " (" One Beautiful Day ") from Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini playing loudly on the stereo as the FBI and CIA shoot up Myerson's wife's house.

Another style is the " Butterfly ", where goalies go down on both pads with their toes pointing outwards and the tops of their pads meeting in the middle, thus closing up the five hole.

That connection to Deep Purple opened up the opportunity for Soule ( and vocalist Ronnie James Dio ) to participate in Roger Glover's 1974 concept album The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.

With the success of Lou's previous film, Suzhou River ( 2000 ), Purple Butterfly was an anticipated follow up with a considerably larger budget.

She meets up with Yugi, Joey and Mokuba in the disguise of Madame Butterfly, the town ’ s greatest duelist.

White settlers flocked to the area after gold was discovered here and the Butterfly Mine and Giant Mine, both sprung up.

* Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly, the largest butterfly in the world with a wing span reaching lengths up to one foot ( 30 cm )

Tong also set up a record label with the uber-producer Youth ( of Killing Joke ) called Butterfly Recordings.