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It opens with an overly reminiscent waltz-tune, and ends conventionally, but it contains a movement in negro-tone that gives it importance. In this the strings are abetted by a tambourine, a triangle, and a gong. It is in march-time, and, after a staccato prelude, begins with a catchy air taken by the second violins, while the firsts, divided, fill up the chords.
"A great success. I took a few turns myself with Teresa Ottolini tra la la la la," and he swayed his head and shoulders to and fro as he hummed a waltz-tune. "You!" exclaimed the marchesa, staring at him with a look of contempt "you!" "Yes. Why not? I am as young as ever, dear marchesa eighty, the prime of life!"
From the window close at hand came out the excruciating strains of a very lusty instrument, and the record was that of a vulgar "catchy" waltz-tune, taken down from a brass-band. All Riseholme knew what her opinion about gramophones was; to the lover of Beethoven they were like indecent and profane language loudly used in a public place.
"I am sorrier than I was before," says Bobby, reflectively, "that the heavy rains have drowned so many of the young birds." "O Nancy!" cries Tou Tou, ecstatically clasping her hands, "have a Christmas-tree!" "And a dance after it!" adds Bobby, beginning to whistle a waltz-tune.
On the way he thought of the eternal antitheses of Parisian life: the news of the death of a friend communicated to him at the Opéra while a waltz-tune was being played! And thinking to himself: "From the Opéra to the Opéra! That, moreover, is the history of my ministry and that of the Granet administration, probably!" The portress at Rue Boursault led him to Denis Ramel's apartment.
Down at the town I heard the church-clock striking midnight, and then one o'clock; and was only aroused when the youth started up and grasped his fiddle. "And now, sir, if you would consent to one thing, 'twould make us very happy. You can't play the violin, worse luck; but you might take a step or two round the deck with Annie, if I strike up a waltz-tune for you to move to."
Suddenly out of the swirling strings the first subject is caught up; it is a frenzy passionately sung by the first violins, reënforced by the flutes at the crises. The second subject appears after a sudden prelude by the brass; it is a very lyric waltz-tune in the relative major, and doubtless depicts the joy recalled in sorrow.
The music was just an accompaniment to that low, earnest whispering; the soft strains of the violins made it still seem like a voice that comes through a veil of dreams. Instinctively Crystal began to hum the waltz-tune and her little head with its quaint coronet of fair curls beat time to the languid lilt. "Will you dance with me, Crystal?" "No! no!" she protested. "Just once to-night.
To be more precise, it was rendering the waltz-tune in "Faust," an opera by the late M. Gounod. Captain Hocken and Captain Hunken knew nothing of "Faust" or of its composer. But they could recognise a tune. "Which?" repeated Tobias gasping, holding by the handrail of the bridge. "You or me? Or both, perhaps?" "Two glasses o' port wine only, 'Bias . . . and you saw me at the station.
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