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"I thank you, sir," he said, with firm decision. "I cannot play first flute in your large orchestra." "But," said the astonished Karrosch, "I will pay " "I much regret," said Kreutzer, "that I cannot play first flute in your large orchestra." Vanderlyn, not less than Karrosch, was bewildered by this episode. Only Anna was not in the least surprised by it, although she did not understand it.
He iss a firtuoso!" grumbled a big German at John's side. John turned to him and smiled. The man, he knew, was Anton Karrosch an operatic impresario. He was glad to have his own impression of the wondrous merit of the playing confirmed by an authority. "He seems to be quite poor," he whispered eagerly. "Perhaps you might find something for him, when we reach New York. He " "Ach!
He would not go to Karrosch, or any of the large, important orchestras; none of the small ones wished a flutist. He learned to loathe the mere word "phonograph" in so many places did it form a clock-work substitute to do the work he longed to do. It was when want actually stared them in the face that he read an advertisement in a German newspaper for a musician flute or clarinet in a beer garden.
Many things there were which, for a time, preserved the innocent flute-player's faith in his informant. But when he came to look for work ah, then vanished the first bubble. Seemingly there was no place in all the city for an old performer on the flute save that which Karrosch offered and which Kreutzer would not take.
He will have no droobles," said Herr Karrosch. "A man who blays like dot! Ven ve land, I see him; yes." A moment later the flute-player glanced up and saw the audience behind the rail. Instantly he lowered his slim instrument, from whose silver mountings, now, the moonlight was beginning to glint prettily.
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