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With her compassionate eyes she thanked her mother in the distance for having prepared this fete in honor of her marriage. The clarionet, violin, and cornet sounded a last modulation, then the final cadence put an end to the bounds of the dances.
I drop my needlework and take to the deck; but it is after all only that shy retiring young man practising secretly on his clarionet. The Captain is drowsily looking down the river. But repose is not long allowed to that active spirit; he sees something in the water what? "Hippopotame," he ejaculates.
He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra.
"Ay, that will I; but he'll have two of you floored, another strangled, and the fourth half-skinned before I can get him to stop." "I don't half like it," said the clarionet anxiously. "Pooh! pooh!" exclaimed the key-bugle, "we'll be more than a match for him; come on; it's worth riskin' for twenty-five bob." "Hear! hear!" cried the trombone.
"'Why, to be sure, Colonel, said I. 'I certainly wouldn't blame you for the same feeling that I know my father had as long as he lived. "The little Bavarian band, according to my instructions, kept on playing Dixie so long that the fellow who blew the clarionet began to skip notes and puff. I went out and told them that that was enough of that tune and switched them onto S'wanee River.
I came nearer to listen; but when I stood beside them, they evidently guessed I was not a working man, and kept themselves to themselves. "What part of the world do you come from, you that are playing the clarionet?" "From Venice," he said, with a trace of Italian accent. "Have you always been blind, or did it come on afterwards " "Afterwards," he answered quickly. "A cursed gutta serena."
"The following morning Katchiba appeared at my door with a large red flag made of a piece of cotton cloth that the Turks had given him; he was accompanied by two men beating large drums, and a third playing a kind of clarionet: this playing at soldiers was an imitation of the Turks. He was in great spirits, being perfectly delighted with the necklace I had sent him." "Oct. 6th.
There was only the danger of feeling too deeply the spell of his voice. His voice had the mellow fulness of the clarionet. But for the subject, she could have fancied a noontide piping of great Pan by the sedges.
Why, I once knew an old chap, who could only play one tune on the clarionet, and that tune out of all tune, who made his fortune in six or seven streets, for every one gave him money, and told him to go away. When he found out that, he came every morning as regular as clock-work.
The little creature was fetched out of his haunts in London purposely to soothe my father with performances on his ancient clarionet, a most querulous plaintive instrument in his discoursing, almost the length of himself; and she endured the nightly sound of it in the guest's blue bedroom, heroically patient, a model to me. Bagenhope drank drams: she allowanced him.
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