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They clung around him, these concentric circles of humanity, like rings around a luminous planet, held by they knew not what resistless attraction. The simple melody, borne upon the pinions of that resonant and cello-like voice, attained an almost supernatural influence over their perverted natures. When it ceased, an audible sigh arose, an involuntary tribute of adoration and of awe.
The sun flashing from the neighboring windows glinted its glad message of life; the rumbling of the passing traffic roared it to him in a thundering message, like that of shattered sea waves; the deep cello-like undernote of the city itself sang it to him. And the message of all the voices was just, "It is good to live! It is good to be!" He turned back, seeing a new man in the chair before him.
That 'cello-like largo with its noiseless suspension stays us for a moment in the courtyard of Chopin's House Beautiful. Then, told in his most dreamy tones, the legend begins. As in some fabulous tales of the Genii this Ballade discloses surprising and delicious things. There is the tall lily in the fountain that nods to the sun.
"I'm not very good at keeping names and faces in mind," she replied, "unless they belong to people I have known very well." "Indeed!" his voice dropped to the 'cello-like undertone now; "isn't that a little unkind? I fancied that we knew each other very well! My conceit is not to be pandered to, I perceive." "Ye-e-s does it seem that way?" said she, ignoring the last remark.
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