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But I have not as yet suggested a fingering for the cadenza." "No matter. Ivan Gregoriev, Monsieur Rubinstein has brought us a new manuscript a barcarolle, you said, Anton? finished to-day, and brought here to be played to me. He writes a clear hand. Sit down, then, and let us hear you interpret it." "I, madame!" "I said so." Ivan flushed crimson, and then went white again.

As Lucetta was retiring, she stopped to pick up the fragments of the torn letter; but Julia, who meant not so to part with them, said, in pretended anger: 'Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie, you would be fingering them to anger me. Julia then began to piece together as well as she could the torn fragments.

Carter sat opposite me all the time, listening intently; staring at me with one fixed unvarying stare, and fingering musical passages upon his knees, with slow cautious motions of his fingers and thumbs. But I could see that he was not listening only: he was pondering and reasoning upon what I told him.

I have overthrown it!" And the gods said: "Sardathrion? Sardathrion, the marble city? Thou, thou hast overthrown it? Thou, the slave of the gods?" And the oldest of the gods said: "Sardathrion, Sardathrion, and is Sardathrion gone?" And furtively Time looked him in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of his nimble sword.

The revelry of the ball-room is unheeded by the preoccupied votaries of the changeful deity as they sit around the green table watching the dealer as he turns the cards, and nervously fingering their little piles of red or white "chips." We have no business and no pleasure here. Let us merely look in and pass on.

"'Twas a wonderful thing that one body could hold it all and never mix the fingering." "There was Kingsbere church likewise," Fairway recommenced, as one opening a new vein of the same mine of interest. Wildeve breathed the breath of one intolerably bored, and glanced through the partition at the prisoners.

Slowly back, softly fingering her bright stones, soberly thinking to herself the motto upon the clasp: "In hope of eternal life." 'What were you talking to papa about? said Primrose, putting a loving hand into Wych Hazel's. The two other gentlemen were speaking together at a little distance. 'I thought you looked troubled; but I could not hear, for Duke was talking to me. 'Dr.

The shallow blue teacups and tiny plates always seemed prettier than other people's china, and nothing ever tasted so delicious as our home-made brown bread and butter. But this evening the flavor seemed spoiled. Carrie sat in mother's place looking sad and abstracted, and fingering her little silver cross nervously.

Others, too, had risen. But Mr. Caryll sat quietly in his chair, idly fingering the cards before him, and smiling gently, between amusement and irony. He was much mistaken if he did not make Lord Rotherby bitterly regret the initiative he had taken in their quarrel. "Gently, my lord," the duke admonished the viscount. "This this gentleman has said that which touches your honor. He shall say more.

The rajah scowled at them, and from the manner in which he kept fingering his kris they saw that it needed a great effort on his part to abstain from killing them at once. He spoke for some time in his own language, and the interpreter translated it. "You are dogs you and all your countrymen.