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Music and things connected with music, music-shops and piano factories, took up most of his time, as he declined to attend the meetings of the Congress.

The year 1789-90 seems to have been about the most disastrous in the situation of his affairs, and led to the most unhappy results. "The music-shops, as a source of income, were almost closed to him, as he could not submit his genius to the dictates of fashion.

The fact is, the Counsellor is young for his time of life; for he already betrays some signs of the change referred to in that once familiar street song, which my friend, the great American surgeon, inquired for at the music-shops under the title, as he got it from the Italian minstrel, "Silva tredi mondi goo."

Then the idea occurred to him to use the pennies themselves, and his first battery was soon complete. He continued his experiments in various fields until, at the age of nineteen, he first brought himself to public notice with his enchanted lyre. This he placed on exhibition in music-shops in London.

Past chocolate shops, where splendidly-attired ladies preside; wood-carving shops, printsellers, pastrycooks where the savarins are tricked out, and where petit fours lie in a hundred varieties music-shops, bazaars, immense booksellers' windows; they who are bent on a look at the shops reach a corner of the Grand Opera Street, where the Emperor's tailor dwells.

"She told me herself that marriage was the scourge of music-shops it carries off their young women at such a rate." "She told you that? It was in one of your long talks together in London? Patty and you got on capitally together. It was very natural she shouldn't care much for men like Mr. Dally afterwards."

The town seemed to be endless as London. There were hotels, churches, chapels, libraries, and music-shops on every hand. The more ordinary features of main streets the marts of jewellery, drapery, and tobacco had an air of grandiose respectability; while the narrow alleys that curved enigmatically away between the lofty buildings of these fine thoroughfares beckoned darkly to the fancy.

The fact is, the Counsellor is young for his time of life; for he already betrays some signs of the change referred to in that once familiar street song, which my friend, the great American surgeon, inquired for at the music-shops under the title, as he got it from the Italian minstrel, "Silva tredi mondi goo."

A long, long time ago, his one friend and admirer, also a German and also poor, had published two of Lemm's sonatas at his own expense the whole edition remained on the shelves of the music-shops; they disappeared without a trace, as though they had been thrown into a river by night.