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Opening the hotel register, the elocutionist, with various flourishes, entered, this name: "Professor Lorenzo Riccabocca, Elocutionist and Dramatic Reader." "Shall I enter your name?" he asked of Philip. "If you please." This was the way Professor Riccabocca complied with his request: "Philip de Gray, the Wonderful Boy-musician." He turned the book, so that the clerk could see the entries.
Professor Lorenzo Riccabocca, whose fame as an elocutionist and dramatic reader has made his name a household word throughout Europe and America, will give some of his choice recitals and personations, assisted by Philip de Gray, the wonderful boy-musician, whose talent as a violin-player has been greeted with rapturous applause in all parts of the United States.
"Well, you look about that age," said Maria, with malicious pleasure. "I shall have to live a good many years before I am sixty," said Paul Beck angrily. "But that's either here nor there. You engaged me to play to-night, and I am ready to do it." Andrew Blake felt the difficulty of his position, but he did not mean to desert the boy-musician whom he had engaged. "Mr.
And the wild, sad air that the girl is supposed to sing seemed so strange with those new chords that this boy-musician gave it that Sheila sat and listened to it as though it were the sound of the seas about Borva coming to her with a new voice and finding her altered and a stranger. "I know nearly all of those Highland songs that Mr. Ingram has got," said the lad.
"I think well of it," replied the boy-musician. He did think well of it. It might not draw a large audience, this mixed entertainment, but it would surely pay something; and it would interfere with no plans of his own, for, in truth, he had none. "Then you will cooperate with me?" said the professor. "Yes, professor." "Give me your hand!" exclaimed Riccabocca dramatically. "Mr.
Professor Riccabocea bowed modestly, and said: "Gentlemen and ladies, you will now have the pleasure of listening to the young and talented Philip de Gray, the wonderful boy-musician, in his unrivaled rendition of the 'Carnival of Venice." Philip rose, coloring a little with shame a I this high-flown introduction, and came forward.
"Yes; he plays very fairly," said Beck, in a patronizing manner, which implied his own superiority. "There can be no doubt about that," said Andrew Blake, with emphasis, for he understood Mr. Beck's meaning, and resented it as one of the warmest admirers of the boy-musician whom he had engaged. But Paul Beck would not for the world have revealed his real opinion of Philip's merits.
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