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Updated: May 12, 2025

So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour's practice of "Ar hyd y nos," "Ye banks and braes," and other favorite airs from his "Instructor on the Flute;" a wheezy performance, into which he threw much ambition and an irrepressible hopefulness. "He had more tow on his distaffe Than Gerveis knew."

George Eliot - Middlemarch