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Why should he not sing for us?" he exclaimed. "The dancing has ceased, I see. Come, I will ask him." Followed by Mr. Stuart, he went over to young Calvert, who was still standing sentinel beside Madame Carr, and clapped him affectionately on the shoulder. "Ned, we demand a song! Come, no refusal, sir!" he exclaimed. "I shall send Caesar for my Amati and you must sing us something.
But, in after-years, he struck out boldly in an original line of his own, and made violins which, without losing the exquisite sweetness of the Amati instruments, possessed far more robustness and volume of tone, reaching, indeed, a combination of excellences which have placed his name high above all others.
In the drawing-room nobody could be gayer than Lady Maulevrier, as she marked the time of Signor Paponizzi's saltarello, exquisitely performed on the Signor's famed Amati violin or talked of the latest scandal always excepting that latest scandal of all which involved her own husband in subdued murmurs with one of her intimates.
At Naples he experienced the misfortune of having his violin stolen, and he was obliged to buy a Nicholas Amati, for which he paid a very high price. After playing and making a great success in Rome, he returned to Paris, where he now found the doors of the Grand Opéra open to him, and he gave several concerts there.
"For a hundred and twenty-five dollars expenses you are getting an order for seven hundred and fifty dollars, Abe," Morris said relentlessly; "and some fellers would throw it up to their partners for months together yet." "It was a genu-ine Amati, Mawruss," Abe repeated for the third time, "and for a genu-ine Amati, Mawruss, a hundred and twenty-five dollars is no price at all."
Who ever heard of an Englishman playing a violin like that? "I will buy it," said Hawksley, sinking back. "Sir," began the dealer, "I am horribly embarrassed. I cannot sell that violin because it isn't mine. It is an Amati worth ten thousand dollars." "I will give you twelve." "But, sir " "Name a price," interrupted Hawksley, rather imperiously. "I want it."
But, it may be remarked by a fortunate discoverer of an old gem, my Amati has lost all this part, cut away perhaps because of its being quite past recovery, and the question arises what had better be done under these circumstances? The answer, seek some party who has an Amati with this part perfect or in excellent preservation.
His acquisition of the Amati was recounted with a wealth of detail that enchanted her, and she closed her eyes the better to see the little dark shop on the quai at Rouen, and the old man who would not sell his treasure, even for a good price, until he had heard the would-be purchaser play on it. "And then, my dear, I tuned it, and played.
After the waiter had gone Morris settled back in his chair and listened once more to the conversation at the next table. "All right; then I'm a liar," he heard Louis say. "I tell you I got the paper in my overcoat pocket right now." Louis rose from his seat and securing the morning paper from his overcoat he read aloud the following item: PAYS HEAVILY FOR AMATI VIOLIN Mrs.
What else would a violin look like?" "You are quite right. I meant the colour." "Oh, the colour! Madeira with a sheen in it." "Yes!" Jones exclaimed. "That is the exact and precise description of the Amati varnish, of which the secret is lost. I hope you did not let the brute have it." Cassy did not want to tell him that either. But when you are very forlorn it is hard to keep everything in.
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