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When it was broken, there was no shattering of it: it simply died away like a long-drawn chord as Mrs. Falbe closed her book. "She died," she said, "I knew she would." Hermann gave a great shout of laughter. "Darling mother, I'm ever so much obliged," he said. "We had to return to earth somehow. Where has everybody else been?" Michael stirred in his chair. "I've been here," he said. "How dull!
He went back to join Falbe in a state of republican irritation, which the honour that had been done him did not at all assuage. There was an hour's interval before the third act, and the two drove back to their hotel to dine there. But Michael found his friend wholly unsympathetic with his chagrin.
It was not only a singer who had sung, but an individual one called Sylvia Falbe. She took her place, at present a most inconspicuous one, on the back-cloth before which Michael's life was acted, towards which, when no action, so to speak, was taking place, his eyes naturally turned themselves.
"I have not the honour of knowing Miss Miss Falbe, is it?" he said; "nor shall I have that honour." Michael got up; there was that in his father's tone that stung him to fury. "It is very likely that you will not," he said, "since when I proposed to her yesterday she did not accept me." Somehow Lord Ashbridge felt that as an insult to himself. Indeed, it was a double insult.
Through the thick boughs overhead the sunlight reached them only in specks and flakes, the wind was but as a distant sea in the branches, and Falbe rolled over on to his face, and sniffed at the aromatic leaves with the gusto with which he enjoyed all that was to him enjoyable. "Ah; that's good, that's good!" he said. "How I love smells clean, sharp smells like this.
You could not say that it was more gigantic than The Ring, more human than the Meistersingers, more emotional than Parsifal, but it was utterly and wholly different to anything else he had ever seen or conjectured. Falbe, he himself, the thronged and silent theatre, the Emperor, Munich, Germany, were all blotted out of his consciousness.
I had with me a Swiss servant; Mrs. Noble had a French maid, together with her London butler, transformed for the time into a mariner by gilt buttons and a nautical serge suit, and the cook was an accomplished chef who had once been in the service of the fastidious Madame de Falbe. We were all of us good sailors, so for our prospective comfort everything augured well.
This time Falbe stood by him, and suddenly put his finger down into the middle of Michael's hands, striking a note. "You left out that F sharp," he said. "Go on. . . . Now you are leaving out that E natural.
But then the quiet imposition of his will suddenly conquered her, and she got up. "My dear, you shall do what you like with me," she said, "for you have given me such a happy day. Will you remember that, Michael? It has been a nice day. And might we, do you think, ask Miss Falbe to come to tea with us when we get back? She can but say 'no, and if she comes, I will be very good and not vex her."
"I do still in the money I earn by giving him music lessons. Mike, have you finished the Variations yet?" "Variations what are Variations?" asked Aunt Barbara. "Yes, two days ago. Variations are all the things you think about on the piano, Aunt Barbara, when you are playing a tune made by somebody else." "Should I like them? Will Mr. Falbe play them to me?" asked she.
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