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But as it has gone so far, and it is necessary for us to act, it is of no use shrinking or regretting. Well! I shall second your endeavours to the utmost of my power. There is one topic in the whole wide range of human thoughts on which we both agree. We shall act in concert, but apart. There will be no need, I hope, for us to meet again.
James said my voice would soon fill a concert hall, and all my hopes of writing and becoming a known author everything dashed to the ground every longing nipped in the bud! Oh! it is cruel, cruel!" "I knew, dear child, that the blow would be severe; don't imagine that it will be easy for me to give you up.
We had grand times with that class. The only way to keep them in order was to keep them very busy. The plan of having them answer in concert was adopted with decided results. It kept them awake and the whole school with them, for California boys have strong lungs. Twenty boys speaking all at once, with eager excitement and flashing eyes, waked the drowsiest drone in the room.
They were met by the ladies of the concert committee, one of whom took Anne off to the performers' dressing room which was filled with the members of a Charlottetown Symphony Club, among whom Anne felt suddenly shy and frightened and countrified.
The chances are that he will never know us, for the shock of this night to his normal soul is so great as to wipe out memory. "The next evening, about the same hour, my sister insisted that I should go with her to the Folies Bergère, a concert garden, none too well frequented, and when I remonstrated, she said: 'I must go, It is there, and the words sent a shiver through me.
They never appeared in their mother's drawing-room when visitors were there, being employed in a room upstairs either at lessons, or consuming the plainest variety of schoolroom tea. They were taken sometimes to an afternoon concert, and on very rare occasions to a play.
There were adults who went to assist at these things of which one read, who departed in state and excitement of an evening to attend performances of "Die Walküre" and "Tristan und Isolde," and who spoke of these experiences in voices and manners different from those in which they spoke, say, of the theater or the concert.
"Where have you been, Edward?" said Tressady; "I haven't seen you since the town-hall." "I have been at a rehearsal. There is a parish concert next week, and I conduct these functions." "The concerts are always bad," said Mrs. Watton, curtly. Edward Watton shrugged his shoulder. He had a charming timid air, contradicted now and then by a look of enthusiastic resolution in the eyes.
Do you think they will care to go?" "Oh-h-h-h! How lovely!" breathed the eight girls in concert. "Care to go? Well I should say so. It will be the greatest lark ever," cried Grace. "If you know any young men who can make themselves useful, we might invite them. I don't like the idea of being the only boy, you know." "David and Tom," said Grace and Anne. "Hippy can go, I'm sure," said Nora.
The next day she rode over the same bit of road again, and the day after, and the day after that. The rides were absolutely uneventful, but sweet with dreams. A week later Sammy teased Mrs. Moore into taking her to the Elks' concert and dance at the Wheatfield Hall over the post-office. When Mrs.
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