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Updated: June 25, 2025
She played some pretty little things from Mendelssohn, Spohr, and Schubert. The gentlemen smoked and praised. Then she found an old music-book, and played Hamlet's overture to Otho, and the minuet. The gentlemen left off praising directly, and came silently into the room to hear the immortal melodist.
Adela heard my lady ask for the singer's name. She made her way to her sisters. Adela was ordinarily the promoter, Cornelia the sifter, and Arabella the director, of schemes in this management. The ladies had a moment for counsel over a music-book, for Arabella was about to do duty at the piano. During a pause, Mr.
In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business.
Kate had been playing, and was still seated at the piano, idly waiting for Walcott, who was turning the pages of a new music-book, to make another selection. She now rose rather wearily, and, leaving the piano, joined her father and aunt upon the veranda outside. Walcott pushed the music from him, and, taking Kate's mandolin from off the piano, followed.
I can see the faces of all of them quite well, for each singer has a candle to light his music-book. And next to the monk stands the boy, the handsomest boy in the whole world probably at this moment. I can see now his great, liquid, dark eyes, and his exquisite face, and the way he tossed back his long waving hair when he struck into his part.
But while this argument approved itself to his reason, his imagination was but half convinced; and he could not but be impressed with the fact that the second creaking of the chair had been coincident with his shutting the music-book; and, unconsciously, pictured to himself some strange visitor waiting until the termination of the music, and then taking his departure.
He had been in that place six nights a week for many years, but had never been observed to raise his eyes above his music-book, and was confidently believed to have never seen a play.
He subsided again; then deeply beseeching asked: 'Have you by chance a portrait of the gentleman, Miss Adister? Is there one anywhere? Caroline stood at her piano, turning over the leaves of a music-book, with a pressure on her eyelids.
In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomachaches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business.
So then he entered the sick-room with his music-books; and Zoe, after watching him in without seeming to do so, crept away to her own room. Then there was rather a pretty little scene. Miss Gale and Miss Dover, on each side of the bed, held a heavy music-book, and Mademoiselle Klosking turned the leaves and read, when the composition was worth reading.
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