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From the few notes that Falbe had struck he guessed on what sort of instrument his ordeal was to take place, and yet he knew that Falbe himself would have been able to convey to him the sense that he could play, though the piano was all out of tune, and there might be dumb, disconcerting notes in it.
"Dedicated to Sylvia Falbe," he wrote at the top. Michael had been so engrossingly employed since his return to London in the autumn that the existence of other ties and other people apart from those immediately connected with his work had worn a very shadow-like aspect.
"I have considered the question," he said, "and I have quite made up my mind whom I want to marry. She is Miss Falbe, Miss Sylvia Falbe, of whom you may have heard as a singer. She is the sister of my music-master, and I can certainly marry nobody else."
"I know you'll bungle those tenths." Falbe moved to the piano-seat. "Oh, let's have a shot at it," he said. "If Lady Barbara won't mind, play that one through to me first, Mike." "Oh, presently, Hermann," he said. "It makes such an infernal row that you can't hear anything else afterwards. Do sing, Miss Sylvia; my aunt won't really mind will you, Aunt Barbara?" "I am suffering from shock.
It did not occur to him to wonder whether Falbe thought him uncouth and awkward; it did not occur to him to try to be pleasant, a job over which poor Michael had so often found himself dishearteningly incapable; he let himself be himself in the consciousness that this was sufficient.
But when you are reading to yourself, never pass over a bar that you don't understand. It has got to sound in your head, just as the words you read in a printed book really sound in your head if you read carefully and listen for them. You know exactly what they would be like if you said them aloud. Can you read, by the way? Have a try." Falbe got down a volume of Bach and opened it at random.
But bachelors always have the best of everything. Now tell me about your visit to Germany. Which was the point where we parted Baireuth, wasn't it? I would not go to Baireuth with anybody!" "I went with Mr. Falbe," said Michael. "Ah, Mr. Falbe has not asked me yet. I may have to revise what I say," said Aunt Barbara daringly. "I didn't ask Michael," said Hermann.
"I suppose I must have no imagination," he said. "I don't picture it even now when you point it out." Falbe pointed an impressive forefinger. "But for him," he said, "England and Germany would have been at each other's throats over the business at Agadir. He held the warhounds in leash he, their master, who made them." "Oh, he made them, anyhow," said Michael. "Naturally.
But they've got to be wild; you can't tame a smell and put it on your handkerchief; it takes the life out of it. Do you like smells, Comber?" "I I really never thought about it," said Michael. "Think now, then, and tell me," said Falbe. "If you consider, you know such a lot about me, and, as a matter of fact, I know nothing whatever about you.
She had given him no greeting, and now as he sat down she moved a little away from him. She seemed utterly unlike herself. "Mother has been told that every Englishman is as brave as two Germans," she said. "She likes that." "Yes, dear," observed Mrs. Falbe placidly. "It makes one feel safer. I saw it in the paper, though; I read it." Sylvia turned on Michael.
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