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So the sound of revelry swept on again in full flood. The men and maids went careering up and down the room. Serena's willing fingers laboured patiently over the yellow keys of the reluctant melodion. But the ancient instrument was weakening under the strain; the bellows creaked; the notes grew more and more asthmatic.
Every afternoon it was particularly the custom about tea time for boats containing music hall quartettes or a boatload of Geisha girls to pull up in front of the house-boat and regale the occupants with the latest music hall songs. In one end of their boat is a little melodion apparently built for river travel, for I never saw one anywhere else.
The right tune the real old joyful "Money Musk," played jubilantly, triumphantly, irresistibly on a fiddle! The melodion gave one final gasp of surprise and was dumb. Every one looked up.
I attacked the squeaky melodion, pushed down a pedal, pulled out the "vox humana" stop the most harmless one of the melodion, but which gave out a supernaturally hoarse sound I struck the chord, and standing up I began.
They had reached the cabin, and he stopped on the threshold. "My, my," he said softly, "don't it look homey? There's your Dad's old chair, and the dresser and the melodion. I was 'fraid you'd sold that, Annabel." "I could have, there's been plenty of chances, but Dad gave it to me, don't you remember? the Christmas I was sixteen."
They had just sat through the usual Sunday exhortation. The ladies of the committee ranged themselves so as to make a background of solemn benevolence on the platform, in the middle of which stood a primeval melodion with two octaves and four stops. One stop would have been enough for me, and I needed it later, as you will see. Here I was! What should I sing? I was utterly at a loss.
"Well, you see he comes up and plays the melodion on Saturday night," said Ned, "and she can't stop him from doing that." "Then you think," said the priest, "that Pat will marry your sister?" "I don't think she wants to marry him." "If she doesn't want to marry him, what's all this talk about?"
At this proposal a thick gloom had fallen over the assembly; but it had been dispersed by Serena Moody's cheerful offer to have the small melodion brought out of the parlour, and to play for dancing as well as she could. The company agreed that she was a smart girl, and prepared to accept her performance with enthusiasm.
Besides other means of recreation, Carleton was happy in having been from childhood a lover of music. In earlier life he sang in the church choir, under the training of masters of increasing grades of skill, in his native village, at Malden, and in Boston. He early learned to play upon keyed instruments, the melodion, the piano, and the organ, the latter being his favorite.
That which radium advances and porches close and lynx eyes shudder. It is a gloom and entrancing is captivating. The example, the only example is mistaken and a murmur, it is jotted and likened to more special reductions. A tall scale, a sour glass, a tight stretch, an even table, a celebrated circus and a melodion, these and many more mistakes have no attributes, they are careless.
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