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At last, after I had endured a meal with them, and was come very near the point of appealing for an interview before her aunt, she went and stood by the music-case, and picking out a tune, sang to it on a high key "He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay."
At last, after I had endured a meal with them, and was come very near the point of appealing for an interview before her aunt, she went and stood by the music-case, and picking out a tune, sang to it on a high key "He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay."
"Oh, girls, what do you think?" she cried, as she flung her music-case on to one chair, her hat on another, and herself on a third. "What?" asked Esther, as she picked up the music-case and straightened the cushion it had knocked over. "Oh, do tell, do tell quick," urged Angela.
"I'll find out some day," returned Beatrice. "I love discovering secrets." "Don't be too sure of mine," said Patty. "You won't find it out, because " But here she shook her head with the air of a sphinx, and, leaving her sentence unfinished, took up her music-case and went to practise. Now, Patty had only been having a little fun with Beatrice.
Now and again people pass: a woman of the slums in a dirty apron, her head wrapped in a grey shawl; two girls in waterproofs, trim and alert notwithstanding the inclement weather, one with a music-case under her arm.
"I should like to hear you sing in those big rooms," acknowledged Bunty, a little wistfully. "When I give my recital you shall have a seat in the front row," Diana promised, as she picked up her gloves and music-case. A tap sounded at the door. "Are you ready?" inquired Olga Lermontof a voice from outside. Bunty opened the door. "Oh, come in, Miss Lermontof.
But now that he was leaving them, and they would grow, as it were, without his permission, he was forced to grant them independence. At the bottom of Orange Street he met Mr. Dawson, the Cathedral Organist; he was a little, plump man, in a very neat grey suit, a shiny top hat, and very small spats. He was always dressed in the same fashion, and carried a black music-case under his arm.
There was a summoning, and yet a distant expression in her eyes. She saw it herself. They were like eyes that had looked on magic, that would look on magic again. A maid came to help her. In a moment she had picked up her bouquet of roses and her music-case, and was back in the green drawing-room. There were more people in it now.
Bess, greatly thrilled, turned up next afternoon with her violin and music-case, and when classes were over they walked across to the Abbey. The pupil was just finishing his lesson, and some rather extraordinary sounds were palpitating among the arches and pillars of the old Minster. "It must take ages to learn to manage all those stops and pedals properly," commented Bess.
Last Christmas we got up a good many, and Arundel, Isabella, and myself used to scribble some nonsense for the occasion. But I am afraid they are all either burnt or taken away. I will look in the music-case. She went to the music-case with the Duke and Mrs. Dallington. 'No, she continued; 'not one, not a single one.
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