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For half an hour after leaving the music-room Uncle Nat had walked up and down the long parlors, with his hands in his pockets, hoping Mr. Hastings would be brief, and expecting each moment to hear Dora calling him back!
These" with a gesture to the various sketches littering the lawn "are merely preliminary. When I begin the portrait itself, we'll retire indoors. I think the music-room here will answer the purpose of a studio very well." "Two whole weeks!" observed Nan meditatively. "I fancy Roger will be somewhat surprised that progress is so slow." "Trenby? Pooh! It's not his picture.
There was much laughter and gay talk, and Patty enjoyed the informal meal immensely. "Why do you call this the music-room?" asked Patty; "there's no piano in it, nor any musical instrument that I can see." "That's just the reason why," replied Nan. "I christened the room myself, and I called it the music-room because it hasn't anything musical in it.
Perils, also eager for distinction, then first obtained the decree for a contest in musical skill to be held yearly at the Panathenaea, and he himself, being chosen judge, arranged the order and method in which the competitors should sing and play on the flute and the harp. And both at that time, and at other times also, they sat in this music-room to see and hear all such trials of skill.
It was still early in the morning, and the cabin party were not disposed to remain any longer on the promenade deck; for it was almost impossible for some of them to stand up, even with the aid of the life-lines and the rails, and all of them retreated to the boudoir and music-room.
And, losing all control, he took a step or two, and raised his shaking hand. His big-knuckled finger, shaken in denunciation, was raised almost in her face. Choking, stammering, he cried: "Ah! Now I know! Now, now I understand you!" Terrified, she retreated toward the door of the music-room. "Father, father! What makes you look so?" she gasped. "Oh, you have never looked or spoken to me this way!
Donald?" "No, it was an advertisement, maybe, or a business letter. It was a long narrow one, I remember." They began a search through the music-room, looking on trays and mantelpieces, and then through the library, feeling on the tops of rows of books. Martha paused in despair. "I can't think where. I went straight to the kitchen. The dining-room, maybe."
She did not know where else to go, and she beat along the sides of the corridor as far as the dining-saloon. She had a dim notion of trying to go up into the music-room above, but a glance at the reeling steep of the stairs forbade. With her wraps on her arm and her sea-cap in her hand, she stood clinging to the rail-post. Breckon came out of the saloon.
The "agreeable little surprise" in the shape of the colonel's daughter was indeed found, alone, awaiting the arrival of the newly released convict in the music-room. But we will imitate the delicacy of those on board the Flying Fish, and leave father and daughter to exchange greetings and confidences in private.
We handed the manuscript to Miss Larrabee, from whom, as she read, came snorts: "'Drawing-room! Huh! 'Music-room. Heavens to Betsy! 'Peculiar style of beauty! Oh, joy! 'Looked like a wood-nymph in the morn. Wouldn't that saturate you!
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