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He had been thinking a great deal of late as to the best course to pursue in ridding himself and Claire of this menacing incubus. He had a feeling that Claire, having exhausted the novelties of her position as accompanist to Lily Condor, was beginning to find the affair irksome. The business venture had progressed in quite another direction from his original intention.
However, he was anxious to make for himself in some other line of endeavor, and while he was often my piano accompanist, he never had any intention of going on the stage. When he was fifteen years old, I was commanded to appear before King Edward, who was a guest at Rufford Abbey, the seat of Lord and Lady Sayville, situated in a district called the Dukeries, and I took John as my accompanist.
Forward, by the rail, I saw the stooped, eager back for which I was unconsciously looking: Miletus Poppas, the Greek Jew, Cressida's accompanist and shadow. We were all there, I thought with a smile, except Jerome Brown. The first member of Cressida's party with whom I had speech was Mr. Poppas.
"'Cause, since I've been laid up, he's been in want of a reliable accompanist." Mavis explained that she would be glad of some work, at which her friend said: "Then off you go at once to the academy. He's often spoken of you, and quite nicely, and he's asked for you in family prayers. If he's won the prize, it's as sure as 'knife' that he'll give you the job.
"However, I'll do my best, Di," she added, as she seated herself at the piano. Joan's "best" as a pianist did not amount to very much at any time, and she altogether lacked that intuitive understanding and sympathy which is the sine qua non of a good accompanist.
Harris is most widely known as an accompanist, and is one of the best in the country. But while the accompaniments he writes to his own songs are carefully polished and well colored, they lack the show of independence that one might expect from so unusual a master of their execution. Except for an unpublished one-act operetta, "Mlle.
"Oh, not at all, Lord Holme," replied the accompanist with a sudden air of rather foolish delight. "I consider it an honour to accompany an amateur who sings like Lady Holme." She laid a slight emphasis on the word "amateur." Lady Holme suddenly walked forward to an empty part of the drawing-room.
She's simple dressed and simple actin'. No frills about Miss Hampton at all. Why, you might easy mistake her for one of the girl ushers! "Pooh!" says Vee. "Also pooh for me," says I. More or less easy and graceful in her motions Miss Hampton is, though, I got to admit, as she stands there chattin' with the accompanist and lettin' them big blue eyes of hers rove careless over the crowd in front.
Time, apparently, had not caused him to think otherwise of the faithful accompanist than as a once capable but now failing machine. Mr Poulter asked Mavis what had happened to her since he had last seen her. She told him the fiction of her marriage; it hurt her to see how glibly the lie now fell from her lips.
Polly drew a long breath of disappointment. "I never knew you to act like this before," she mused. "How sweetly Doodles sang!" said Miss Sterling. "Yes," agreed Polly dispiritedly. "And you are a charming accompanist." "Oh! now, who's silly?" "Nobody." Miss Sterling drew her hand from her stocking. "It doesn't seem to me that I play well at all I long to do so much better."
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