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There was a small grand-piano in this room, a larger piano in the big, empty reception room on the other side of the house, Susan and Emily had a small upright for their own use, and there were one or two more in other parts of the house. Everywhere was exquisite order, exquisite peace. Lightfooted maids came and went noiselessly, to brush up a fallen daisy petal, or straighten a rug.
"The finale, as Ries relates, was begotten in a night of storm"; and on this text Marx discourses through a page or two. Ries relates no such thing. Ib. p. 179. For Schindler, read Lenz. Ib. p. 191. "The Philharmonic Society in London presented to him.....a magnificent grand-piano forte of Broadwood's manufacture." Schindler says expressly, "Presented by Ferd.
There were stray starbeams in this apartment; her eyes were accustomed to the gloom; she could dimly discern the great book-cases lining the wall, an antique chair, the glittering key-board of a grand-piano that stood apart, yet thrilling perhaps with recent harmonies, a colossal head of Antinoüs, that self-involved dreamer, stone-entranced in a calm of passion.
He had forgotten Kate's name, but he remembered her wish to see his treasures. "Come to my library," he said; "but first let me call your attention to this remarkable painting." The painting or rather wash-drawing in black-and-white hung over the grand-piano in the light of the west windows. It was globular in form, and represented, Simeon explained, the "War of Light and Darkness."
To both girls the interior in the establishment of Sophia Vasilievna, which is directly opposite, is distinctly visible the shining yellow parquet, draperies of a dark cherry colour on the doors, caught up with cords, the end of a black grand-piano, a pier glass in a gilt frame, and the figures of women in gorgeous dresses, now flashing at the windows, now disappearing, and their reflections in the mirrors.
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