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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Fifty pounds a year, And the copying besides." "Is it true, Arthur?" breathlessly exclaimed Mrs. Channing. "I have told you that it is, mother mine. Jupp has resigned, and I am assistant-organist." Annabel danced round him in an ecstasy of delight. Not at his success success or failure did not much trouble Annabel but she thought there might be a prospect of some fun in store for herself.
'I was one of the applicants for the post of assistant-organist at Melchester Cathedral when it became vacant, and I find I am likely to be chosen, through the interest of one of my father's friends. 'I congratulate you. 'No, Ethelberta, it is not worth that. I did not originally mean to follow this course at all; but events seemed to point to it in the absence of a better.
Soon afterward the boy obtained the appointment of assistant-organist to the Elector, with a salary of a hundred thalers, no inconsiderable addition to the resources of his poor mother, who, with her family of three children, Ludwig, Carl, and Johann, and the more and more frequent visits of her ne'er-do-well of a husband to the tavern, was often grievously hard put to it for money.
Channing liked to be alone with Hamish when the accounts were being gone over. Mrs. Channing was in the drawing-room, some of the children with her. Arthur entered. "Mrs. Channing," cried he, with mock ceremony, "allow me to introduce you to the assistant-organist of the cathedral." She smiled, supposing it to be some joke. "Very well, sir. He can come in!" "He is in, ma'am. It is myself."
And now Jupp must go and lay himself up, and I have the services to attend myself, morning and afternoon!" Mr. Jupp was assistant-organist. An apprentice to Mr. Williams, but just out of his time. "What's the matter with Jupp?" asked Arthur. "A little bit of fever, and a great deal of laziness," responded Mr. Williams. "He is the laziest fellow alive.
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