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But the fiddle-bow never could have been perfected, because there would have been no call for its tapering delicacy, its calculated balance of lightness and strength, had not the violinist's technique reached such marvellous fineness of power. For it is the accomplished artist who is fastidious as to his tools; the bungling beginner can bungle with anything.
"Perhaps. I doubt it, though," gloomed the man. "One can't hoe corn nor pull weeds with a fiddle-bow and that's all he seems to know how to handle." "But he can learn and he does play beautifully," murmured the woman; whenever before had Ellen Holly ventured to use words of argument with her husband, and in extenuation, too, of an act of her own!
'The air of Milan, he went on, with less confidence under Laura's steady gaze, and therefore more forcing of his candour 'the sweet air of Milan gave her a deep chestful, so that she could hold her note as long as five lengths of a fiddle-bow: by the body of Sant' Ambrogio, it was true! Beppo stretched out his arm, and chopped his hand edgeways five testificatory times on the shoulder-ridge.
"Nay, what save the lovely city, and the little house on the hill, And the wastes and the woodland beauty, and the happy fields we till; "And the homes of ancient stories, the tombs of the mighty dead; And the wise men seeking out marvels, and the poet's teeming head; "And the painter's hand of wonder; and the marvellous fiddle-bow; And the banded choirs of music: all those that do and know.
And then Amyas calls: "Now, silence trumpets, waits, play up! 'Fortune my foe! and God and the Queen be with us!" "Well played, Jack; thy elbow flies like a lamb's tail," said Amyas, forcing a jest. "It shall fly to a better fiddle-bow presently, sir, an I have the luck " "Steady, helm!" said Amyas. "What is he after now?"
This is my fiddle-bow; and if you are not gone before I can count three, I'll shoot you with it. One! I said; but I didn't need to count further. He turned and ran, as if the as if a regiment was after him; and as soon as I had done laughing, I went on my way to the tavern."
With a fiddle-bow for his only weapon he was a poor ally, and yet he seemed to be the only true friend she possessed. Barbara was very lonely, and more and more she was persuaded that Aylingford Abbey was a different place from that which, through all her childhood until now, she had considered it.
An old man, tall and slender, with snowy hair falling in a single curl over his forehead; with brown eyes which glance birdlike here and there, seeing everything, taking in every face, every shadow of a vanishing form that hurries along and away from him; with fiddle-bow in hand, and fiddle held close and tenderly against his shoulder. De Arthenay, looking for his little girl!
The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.
The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.
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