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"'Is limbs be sound enough, only the poor little chap 'ad the small-pox badly when he was four, and 'as been blind ever since. A extraordinary 'appy child; and Miss Innes has promised to 'ave him taught the pianna." "A piano-tuner must have a good ear, and Miss Innes says his ear is perfect. He'll whistle anything he hears." Owen bade the cottagers good-night and climbed up the hillside again.
I heard they have so many old-fashioned ones that they have to burn 'em to get rid of 'em, and they even give 'em away sometimes. I wonder, could we find out and get hold of one?" "I guess 'twould cost too much to get it here," said Bob practically. "My! I wisht we had one. Say, Lizzie, 'f we had a pianna would you show me how to read notes?" "Of course," said Betty. "Well, we'll get one somehow!
"I been en'tainin' my comp'ny in de pa'lor? Co'se I has; you wasn't usin' it. What you s'pose my frien's 'u'd think ef I'd ax 'em in de kitchen w'en dey wasn't no one in de front room? Co'se I ax 'em in de pa'lor. I do' want my frien's to think I's wo'kin' fu' no low-down people. W'y, Miss 'Liza Harris set down an' played mos' splendid on yo' pianna, an' she compermented you mos' high.
Emily and Bob came home in high feather and told their mother, who had not been able to get out that morning, and she beamed on Betty with as warm a smile as if she had been her own daughter: "Now, ain't that great!" she said, and her voice sounded boyish just like Jane's. "Why, we'll have to get a pianna. I heard you could get 'em cheap in the cities sometimes old-fashioned ones, you know.
Morgan and 'ere's your 'ealth and I 'appened to 'ave on some of Clavering's abberdashery, and he sor it too; and he didn't dare so much as speak a word." "How about the house in St. John's Wood?" Mr. Morgan asked. "Execution in it. Sold up hevery thing: ponies and pianna, and Brougham, and all. Mrs. Montague Rivers hoff to Boulogne non est inwentus, Mr. Morgan.
Think of havin' a pianna! Say, Betty, I can play the base of chopsticks now!" The next evening when Betty got home from the Hathaways there was the piano standing in the big space opposite the windows in the dining-room.
Most probbly there was nothing in it so many lies is told about families Marobblan went away, bag and baggage, saucepans, and pianna, and all the feller ad a pianna, and wrote potry in French, and he took a lodging at Clavering, and he hankered about the primises, and it was said that Madam Fribsy, the milliner, brought letters to Miss Hamory, though I don't believe a word about it; nor that he tried to pison hisself with charcoal, which it was all a humbug betwigst him and Madam Fribsy; and he was nearly shot by the keeper in the park."
An infernal pianna was jingling from morning till night two eldest Miss Buckmasters, "Battle of Prag" six youngest Miss Shums, "In my Cottage," till I knew every note in the "Battle of Prag," and cussed the day when "In my Cottage" was rote.
Morgan and 'ere's your 'ealth and I 'appened to 'ave on some of Clavering's abberdashery, and he sor it too: and he didn't dare so much as speak a word." "How about the house in St. John's Wood?" Mr. Morgan asked. "Execution in it. Sold up heverythin: ponies, and pianna, and brougham, and all. Mrs. Montague were hoff to Boulogne, non est inwentus, Mr. Morgan.
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