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Could he have modelled her future course according to his own wishes, he would have had her live a gentle life for the next three years, with a pencil perhaps in her hand or a music-book before her; and then come forth, cleaned as it were by such quarantine from the impurity to which she had been subjected.
Before I had been for one week her subject, she taught me how to bow; how to pick up a pocket-handkerchief; how to present a bouquet; how to hold a fan; how to pay a compliment; how to turn over the leaves of a music-book in short, how to obey and anticipate every imperious wish; and how to fetch and carry, like a dog. My vassalage began from the very day when I first ventured to call upon her.
Slam! went the music-book at something, and Sandy almost choked with fear. Bang! went something else, that brought Bert and Harry downstairs to help catch the burglar. "There he is in the corner!" called Uncle Daniel to the boys, and then began such a slam banging time that the people upstairs were in terror that the burglar would kill Harry and Bert and Uncle Daniel.
"And now, my dear Miss Dawson," said Father Phil, "since I've read the lines at your high bidding, will you sing them for me at my humble asking?" "Very antithetically put, indeed," said Fanny; "but you must excuse me." "You said there was a tune to it?" "Yes; but I promised Captain Moriarty to sing him this," said Fanny, going over to the pianoforte, and laying her hand on an open music-book.
Adrian closed his music-book, and got up. "Of course I am," he answered. "When?" said Anthony. "In September, as usual," said Adrian. "I was wondering," said Anthony, twiddling his cigarette, "whether you would mind taking your holiday a little earlier than usual this year in August, for instance?" "Why?" asked Adrian, with caution.
"We did not know you had the headache, mamma," said Matilda, "till after they had played several tunes, and we heard Grace saying something to Herbert about racketing upon the stairs he only ran up stairs once for my music-book; and the moment Grace spoke to him, he came to us, and said that you were not well; then Mad. de Rosier stopped the dulcimer, and we all left off dancing, and we were very sorry Grace had not told us sooner that you were ill: at that time it was ten nearly eleven o'clock."
"I discovered it," replied Rachel, rising also and facing him with her head thrown back and her youthful eyes flashing, "I discovered it in the music-book which was left last night upon this table. I saw it placed there clandestinely by my niece Ruth." "Be you mad, Miss Blythe?" asked Fuller, with a slow solemnity of inquiry which would have made the question richly mirthful to an auditor.
A great many volumes have been published in order to supply this want, some of which have done good, while, if we say of others that they have done no harm, it is as much as they deserve. A music-book for general use in churches which do not have quartette choirs and "classical" music must be prepared with care and good judgment.
"Meanwhile Gottlieb has opened the piano-forte, and placed the well-known music-book on the stand; and from the card-table cries the respectable mamma, " 'Chantez donc, mes enfans! "That is the cue of my part. I place myself at the piano-forte, and the Rodeleins are led up to the instrument in triumph. "And now another difficulty arises. Neither wishes to sing first.
The suggestion was acceded to by acclamation, and while one gentleman led her to the grand piano which stood between the front windows of the drawing-room, and another opened a music-book which she named, a set was quickly formed in the long apartment, the soberer portion of the crowd ranging themselves along the walls as lookers-on. Mrs. Aylett was a proficient in dance-music.
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