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She hated as much as anyone the sickening blows which Fate hands out to the struggling and ambitious; but she never made them the basis of a monologue act. Often, after a dreary trip round the offices of the music-publishers, she would howl bitterly in secret, and even gnaw her pillow in the watches of the night; but in public her pride kept her unvaryingly bright and cheerful.
Altogether the two young men grew quite jolly, recalling a hundred oddities, and reknitting their friendship at the expense of the Fatherland. "But was there ever a more madcap expedition than ours?" exclaimed Peter. "Most boys start out to be pirates " "And some do become music-publishers," Lancelot finished grimly, suddenly reminded of a grievance. "Ha! ha! ha! Poor fellow!" laughed Peter.
Altogether the two young men grew quite jolly, recalling a hundred oddities, and reknitting their friendship at the expense of the Fatherland. "But was there ever a more madcap expedition than ours?" exclaimed Peter. "Most boys start out to be pirates " "And some do become music-publishers," Lancelot finished grimly, suddenly reminded of a grievance. "Ha! ha! ha! Poor fellow'" laughed Peter.
Music, in many ways, has built itself up into a great industry among us, music-publishers, musical instrument-makers, music teachers, musical performers, all mutually dependent, and together swelling the national industry to the amount of many millions. It is the opportunities of hearing music, it is the concerts and the operas, that give the impulse to this whole many-branched machine.
But, not content with this, they sold these pieces to music-publishers; and thus repaid his kindness by robbing him. He seldom received any recompense for his pianoforte compositions, but generally wrote them for his friends, who were, of course, anxious to possess some work of his for their own use, and suited to their powers of playing.
Today, for the first time, she revealed something of her woes. There was that about the mop-headed young man which invited confidences. She told him of the stony-heartedness of music-publishers, of the difficulty of getting songs printed unless you paid for them, of their wretched sales. 'But those songs you've been playing, said Beverley, 'they've been published? 'Yes, those three.
That he did not really care he proved to himself by kissing her next time. He accepted her as she was because she was there. She brightened his troubled life a little, and he was quite sure he brightened hers. So he drifted on, not worrying himself to mean any definite harm to her. He had quite enough worry with those music-publishers. The financial outlook was, indeed, becoming terrifying.
Can you put me in the way of procuring his address? The fortune he had come to seek he would surely have found; he would be a known man. But people looked blank, and declared they had never heard of him. I applied to music-publishers with the same result. I wrote to his uncle in Hampshire; the squire did not reply.
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