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Adolphus "I can assure you that the money paid by some firms of publishers to a few well-known authors I will mention no names as advances against royalties, is something stupendous!" "Ah!" Mr. Barnes murmured, solemnly shaking his head. "Marie Corelli, I expect, and that Hall Caine," remarked young Adolphus. "Seems easy enough to write a book, too," Mrs. Barnes said.
However, he soon found that the Neapolitan musicians played the orchestral parts of his concertos as well as his own accompanists did after some practice; for, having at length consented to play the first of his concertos before the court, the accompaniment was so good that Corelli is said to have exclaimed to Matteo: "Si suona a Napoli!" "They do play at Naples!"
How do ye ken whether I am honest, or what I am? I may be the deevil himsell for what ye ken; for he has power to come disguised like an angel of light; and besides he is a prime fiddler. He played a sonata to Corelli, ye ken. There was something odd in this speech, and the tone in which it was said.
Certainly he had a scholar's knowledge of the works of Miss Marie Corelli, Miss Braddon, Miss Elizabeth Glyn and Madame Sarah Grand that would have astonished and flattered those ladies enormously, and he loved nothing so much in his hours of relaxation as to propound and answer difficult questions upon their books.
To which Corelli, in an honest conscience of what was due to his musick, reply'd, "No, Sir, I was only afraid I enterrupted business." His Eminence, who knew that a genius could never shew itself to advantage where it had not its regards, took this reproof in good part, and broke off his conversation to hear the whole concerto played over again.
'Mavis Clare' is mignonne and fair, 'is pretty, and knows how to dress besides, is a 'most independent creature, too; quite indifferent to opinions, All these things, as we learn from many sources, are true of Miss Corelli also.
It is only when they are handled by writers of imaginative fiction that they become popularly known at all. In 'The Sorrows of Satan' Miss Corelli has earned a reputation for originality by advancing a theory which is older than many of the hills.
Handel, irritated at his lack of understanding, snatched the violin from his hand and played the passage himself, to show how it should be executed; Corelli, gentlest of souls, took no offence, although thirty-two years his senior and the greatest violinist living, but merely observed, "My dear Saxon, this music is in the French style, of which I have no knowledge."
In 1712 Corelli's concertos were beautifully engraved at Amsterdam, but the composer only survived the publication a few weeks. A beautiful statue, bearing the inscription "Corelli princeps musicorum," was erected to his memory, adjacent that honoring the memory of Raffaelle in the Pantheon. He accumulated a considerable fortune, and left a valuable collection of pictures.
"Just a LITTLE better than Marie Corelli and the Duchess!" "And to think of having all those stories to read! You haven't read any of them yet?" "Not a one. I've been reading only the novels we take up in the Wednesday class." "Lord!" muttered Condy. Condy's spirits had been steadily rising since the incident aboard the whaleback.
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