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Crowest spins a pretty yarn of Beethoven's acting as "postillon d'amour" by carrying love letters for a clandestinely loving couple. Many of his own love-longings were couched in the form of the dedications prefixed to his compositions. The piano sonata, Op. 7, was inscribed to the Countess Babette von Keglevics, later the Princess Odeschalchi, and is called for her sake "der Verliebte."
While I have acted the part of Dan Cupid in several stage productions, I've had no actual experience with the attachments and jealousies of humans big or little. Midgets do have love-longings and jealousies, and love-making is carried on with all the zeal of modern warfare. Also, it has some of the elements of modern international diplomacy in its double-talk and duplicity.
I began to wonder whether he had taken to drink which God forbid! or had conceived a passion for cards; or whether something in the line of a weakness for women had happened to him. In youth love-longings act powerfully, well, and in such a large city as Moscow bad examples and occasions are not lacking. But no; nothing of that sort was discernible.
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