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We were advised to live in the country, and Doctor Cuyler suggested that it would be well for my brother to have surroundings with agreeable occupation for the mind. If he were a musician he must have a piano. There ought to be a garden for him to walk in and even work in. Motoring, with the slight vibration of a good car, would be particularly beneficial a little later on.
The little Arab, playing carelessly upon his pipe with the red arabesques, was soon invisible among his goats beside the dry water-course that was probably the limit of his journeying, but Domini felt that like a musician at the head of a procession he had played her bravely forward into the dawn and Africa. At Ah-Souf Domini changed into another train and had the carriage to herself.
Her daughter, Victorine Louise, was another gifted musician, but died after a brief career, leaving a heritage of piano works and songs. Louise Angelique Bertin, born in 1805, was one of those impatient creatures who are eager to read books before learning the alphabet. In taking up painting, she wished to start in at once with canvas and brush, regardless of preliminary training.
She made a step as though to shield her husband's sister from the cantankerous old man. "If I hear another word of argument in this house tonight " she threatened. "Mr. Reinhardt, what are these people here for?" The musician awoke, with a sigh, from his dazzled contemplation of his host's sister, and looked about him. "Ach, yes! Ach, yes!" he admitted.
Leaving aside a few strange exceptions, a musician is not a soldier, a barrister not a stockbroker, a poet not a man of business, or a politician a great organiser.
Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon. 'Oh, said the ass, 'by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician. The cat was pleased with the thought, and joined the party.
It was a quaint haunt, where gathered Doctor Peters and Father Dube, and Parker Prout, the old artist who had failed in life because of too much talent, and M. Martin, and the venerable Potain, who had lost his mind after his wife's death, and Ovide Marie, the curly-haired musician from Amity Street.
When Hans came inside the tent, a whispered word to Andy was sufficient to make the young fugitive understand what was coming. Hans removed the top head of his big bass drum. Andy snuggled along the rounded woodwork of the instrument, and the drum head was replaced. The double load was a pretty heavy one for the portly musician to handle, but all went well.
Marvin, to snub my pet musician my very newest pet musician," Mrs. Courtelyou rebuked him, as he entered. "I didn't mean it. I was waiting for why, my car went to pieces," he explained. "Is Pauline here?" "Here? She is the only person present. Baskinelli hasn't spoken a word to any one else. He won't play anything unless she suggests the subject. I am glad Mr. Owen is here to protect her."
"You have nearly reached the end of your journey. The portress at the house in the Rue Montmartre is the most obliging woman in the world. She will tell you that the musician still retains his rooms in the house, but that he resides there no longer, for he has made a lucky hit, and last month he married the daughter of a wealthy banker living close by.
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