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If Miss Matty could teach children anything, it would throw her among the little elves in whom her soul delighted. I ran over her accomplishments. Once upon a time I had heard her say she could play "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman?" on the piano, but that was long, long ago; that faint shadow of musical acquirement had died out years before.
He told a story of how a great poet, being asked a question in a lady's album: "What is your favourite employment?" wrote in reply: "Cursing the schoolmaster who made me hate Horace in my boyhood." It was a pity to spoil "Ah vous dirai-je, maman?" for the young pianist, but pluies de perles taught nobody anything.
He thinks they are merely little variations, such as Nel cor mio non piu sento, or Ah, vous dirai-je, maman, etc., and insists upon it, that I shall play them. I try to excuse myself, but they all attack me. So then, 'Listen, and burst with ennui, think I to myself, and begin to work away.
But we who are not so comment dirai-je? so self-complete must rely on frivolous things like una buona cena. 'Don't believe in 'em, reiterated the resolutionist; 'three regular' 'Ah, c'est mauvais, gesticulated Madame Carlotti, who alternated between Italian and French phrases in London, and kept her best English for the Continent. 'Mr.
I want to play Shakespeare," Miriam made known. "That's fortunate, as in English you haven't any one else to play." "But he's so great and he's so pure!" said Mrs. Rooth. "That indeed seems the saving of you," Madame Carré returned. "You think me actually pretty bad, don't you?" the girl demanded with her serious face. "Mon Dieu, que vous dirai-je? Of course you're rough; but so was I at your age.
The note for note reproduction of 'Ah! vous dirai-je, maman? in one of the most popular of the so-called Negro melodies with which all America and England are familiar, is an example of this very transparent plagiarism; and the tune with which Mr.
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