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Only think of your hearing music now!" "Heavenly music!" he went on. "The sounds seem to come from above." "What? You have always refused to give me a box at the Italiens because you could not abide music, and are you turning music-mad at this time of day? Mad that you are!
Others said that Beethoven was music-mad, that they could not be called music, that they were too difficult, unintelligible, and so on. That was close onto a century ago, and they are still unintelligible to some, but we now know that this is not the fault of the quartets as was so naively assumed at that time.
"You play?" asked McClintock, who was sorting the rolls. "A little. This is a good piano." "It ought to be; it cost enough to get it here," said the Scot, ruefully. "Ever play one of these machines?" "Yes. I've always been more or less music-mad. But machinery will never approach the hand." "I know a man.... But I'll tell you about him some other time. I'm crazy over music, too.
She doesn't care tuppence for the Turner boy, but he's musical, and she's quite music-mad, and now and then they 'accidentally' meet. Her father won't let anyone see her at the house. She wants to study abroad, but they can't afford it, I imagine, so I've written to see if I can interest a friend of mine in Berlin But why do you smile?" she broke off to ask innocently.
Ruth had not taken the Point Pleasant dances seriously, but as day on day she stifled in a half-darkened flat that summer, she sometimes sobbed at the thought of the moon-path on the sea, the reflection of lights on the ball-room floor, the wavelike swish of music-mad feet. The flat was hot, dead. The summer heat was unrelenting as bedclothes drawn over the head and lashed down.
"Yes, here's a pretty kettle of fish! Our Miranda has absconded, poor child. Happy thing you brought down Francie; nobody else could take the part at such short notice. You must pacify Marilda, silence scruples, say it is her duty to Church, country, and family. Can't stop!" "Lance, explain- do! Music-mad as usual!" cried Sir Ferdinand, pursuing him down-stairs in despair.
Two-Hawks! Cutty saw himself at twenty, in the pit at La Scala, with music-mad Milan all about him. Two-Hawks! He remembered now. The nickname the young bloods had given her because she had been eternally guarded by her mother and aunt, fierce-beaked Calabrians, who had determined that Rosa should never throw herself away on some beggarly Adonis. And this chap was her son!
"I must be music-mad; the only chance of keeping sane just now. There's an awful predicament! Can't go into it now, but you shall hear all when this is over." Wherewith Lance was lost to view, and presently burst into St. Kenelm's Vicarage, to the relief of poor Mr. Flight, who had tried to solace himself with those three words as best he might. "All right.
But he was chiefly music-mad and undermined his health by his overwork. Then in 1868, his father got after him to marry. As long before as 1859, when he was nineteen, he had suffered from an unrequited love. Now at the age of twenty-eight he cared nothing for petticoats.
We have all the stars in the season at times dear Melba and Caruso and darling Bemberk and dear Debussy! Oh! don't laugh at my enthusiasm, my dear; but I'm quite music-mad and then, of course, we have any amount of amateurs, and all the new young professionals that are coming on.
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