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Sottish drinking, indiscriminate gluttony, driving coaches, rustic sports, such as fox-chases, horse-races, etc., are in my opinion infinitely below the honest and industrious profession of a tailor and a shoemaker, which are said to 'deroger'. If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself.
Exhausted with fatigue, they reposed in that city for a day, and on the 1st April proceeded, partly by the river Loire and partly by the road, as far as Tours. Here they were visited by nobody, said Barneveld, but fiddlers and drummers, and were execrably lodged.
There were only two fiddles, and sometimes the noise of the Falls would almost drown the music. The fiddlers had to scrape so hard, that they gave out about three o'clock, and we had to give up the dancing, and go home, very much disappointed." "Unlucky, indeed!" interjected Chiffield. "But the next night we had two extra fiddlers.
At that moment, luckily, Lady Baldock came into the room, and Phineas was saved from the necessity of making a declaration at a moment which would have been most inopportune. Lady Baldock was exceedingly gracious to him, bidding Violet use her influence to persuade him to come to the gathering. "Persuade him to desert his work to come and hear some fiddlers!" said Miss Effingham.
Upon my word I can't. He didn't take it in good part at all. 'Who's that impudent puppy? he begins to shout. I was in excellent form as it happened, and he went through the closed window very suddenly. He flew quite a long way into the yard. I raged like like a minotaur. The women clung to me and screamed, the fiddlers got under the table.... Such fun!
A flower-wreathed instrument of his calling went to the player of the sprightliest air; after which awardment, the fiddlers, each to the tune of his own choosing, marched off the green to make room for Pretty Bessee, her father the beggar, and her suitors the innkeeper, the merchant, the gentleman, and the knight.
He took off his hat to enjoy the crystalline atmosphere, and while he faced the brightening east, the sharp peculiar bark of the Arab greyhound broke the solemn silence that brooded over sea and land. The sound proceeded from the boat-house, and he hastened towards it, startling a mimic army of crabs and fiddlers that had not yet ended their nightly marauding.
"The Cardinal shall pay the fiddlers," added Gondi. The young men applauded with a laugh; and all reascended to the ballroom as lightly as they would have gone to the battlefield. It was on the day following the assembly that had taken place in the house of Marion de Lorme.
'What brings a man who plays as you do, playing in the streets? he asked a little sulkily. 'That eternal want of pence which vexes fiddlers, said the youngster 'I lost an engagement a month ago. First violin at the Garrick. Rowed with the manager. Nothing else turned up. Must make money somehow. 'What have you made to-night? Christopher asked.
His fiddlers and trumpeters begin trumpeting and fiddling for you at the early dawn they twang and blow for you in the afternoon, they pipe for you at night that you may dance and there is nothing to pay Lenoir pays for all. Give him but the chances of the table, and he will do all this and more.
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