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Updated: July 7, 2025
No doubt the man knew much that would prove of value to me. I doubted if this man was perfectly honest. I was satisfied that the concert-hall manager had had good grounds for discharging him. But it often "takes a rogue to catch a rogue," and I was willing to profit by any advantage that came to hand. At length I reached the next corner.
He slipped his hand through her arm; and, following out those thoughts of his in the concert-hall, asked: "Do you like Captain Fort, Nollie?" "Yes; he's a nice man." "He seems a nice man, certainly; he has a nice smile, but strange views, I'm afraid." "He thinks the Germans are not much worse than we are; he says that a good many of us are bullies too." "Yes, that is the sort of thing I mean."
This low-class concert-hall was frequented by soldiers, who, out on leave, would visit the taverns, the beer-houses, and finish the evening on the squalid benches of this Eldorado of the provinces. On this particular evening these critical gentlemen of the Army were less satisfied than ever.
He saw them ahead of him, and he saw nothing else. Towards the middle of the square, they turned aside into a street on the left. A concert-hall was in the street with doors open for an afternoon performance. They entered the hall. Still out of himself, Ovid followed them.
All around this the mountains went up like stairs, or theatre-seats, to a great height except at one narrow end which was open to a view of the sea. You could imagine it a council-place or concert-hall for giants, and the rock table in the centre the stage for performers or the stand for the speaker.
She also made him describe to her more than once how he had first seen her: his indelible impression of her as she played; her appearance at his side in the concert-hall; how he had followed her out and looked for her, and had vainly tried to learn who she was. "I stood quite close to you, you say, Maurice? Perhaps I even looked at you. How strange things are!"
As one goes early to a concert-hall with a passion even for the preliminary tuning of the musicians, so my ear sits alone in the vast amphitheatre of Nature and waits for the earliest warble of the blue-bird, which seems to start up somewhere behind the heavenly curtains. And the scent of spring, is it not the first lyric of the nose that despised poet of the senses?
Vienna slept and dreamed of the welcome news which, despite the late hour, had spread like wild-fire from the concert-hall through the city of the joyful intelligence that war against France was resolved on, and that the time was at length at hand when the wrongs perpetrated by Napoleon were to be avenged.
He descended among the trees, where the soft glow of Japanese lanterns picked out parts of their great rugged trunks, here and there, in the great mass of darkness under the lofty foliage. More lanterns, of the shape of cylindrical concertinas, hanging in a row from a slack string, decorated the doorway of what Schomberg called grandiloquently "my concert-hall."
As we went into the immense concert-hall a group of girls were giving an informal concert among themselves. When lunch is served on the premises with chronographic exactitude, the thirty-five minutes allowed for the meal give an appreciable margin for music and play. A young woman was just finishing a florid song.
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