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'P.S. Love to Miss Pussy at the next music-lesson. 'You expect Mr. Neville, then? said Mr. Crisparkle. 'I count upon his coming, said Mr. Jasper.
"No, Beth, I have not forgotten," said Mrs. Caldwell; "but after your conduct yesterday, I do not know how you can expect me to give you another music-lesson." "Are you not going to give me any more?" Beth exclaimed. "No, certainly not," her mother answered. Beth's heart sank.
Lacy; and Kate gave herself an ill-tempered wriggle, and felt cross and rebellious. It was a trial; but if Kate had taken it humbly, she would have found that even the stiff hard words and set phrases gave accuracy to her ideas; and the learning of the texts quoted would have been clear gain, if she had been in a meeker spirit. This done, Mrs. Lacy gave her a music-lesson.
She rushed out into the grounds and paced rapidly to and fro for several minutes, trying to regain sufficient calmness to dare venture into the schoolroom; not caring to appear there either for some minutes, as the hour for her music-lesson had not yet fully expired. When she thought it had, she went quietly in and took her accustomed seat.
Caldwell winced. "What's the difficulty, Puck?" Lady Benyon asked. "The difficulty is between me and mamma," Beth answered with dignity, and then she left the room, sauntering out as she had come in, with an utterly dispirited air. The next morning she went to practice as usual, but Mrs. Caldwell did not come to give her her music-lesson. Beth thought she had forgotten it, and went to remind her.
But Gluck was never satisfied, and he kept Apollo and the Muses at their music-lesson until their ladies of honor were obliged to inform them that they must positively retire to their toilets, a courier having arrived to say that the princess had entered the gates of the city. While all these preparations were going on around him, the King of Rome tarried in his private apartments.
But to every preparatory and girls' school in England I do not know if the same thing happens in America the music-master comes once or twice a week, and with a fine disregard of the elementary necessities of teaching, children are called one by one, out of whatever class they happen to be attending, to have their music-lesson.
"Other girls have silver-backed hair-brushes!" wailed Rose one night, regarding her old one with a scornful glance. "Yes, and chairs that don't tip one over," I added, as I managed to save myself from a fall. "Isn't it horrid to be poor, Meta?" said Rose. "It's no joke." I was very grim because I had bruised my hand on the rickety chair, and tomorrow was music-lesson day, as I remembered.
Upon the evening of the 27th August, Margaret gave her accustomed lesson, and lingered a little as usual after the lesson, talking to Mrs. Austin, who had taken a wonderful fancy to her granddaughter's music-mistress; and to Clement, who somehow or other had discontinued his summer evening walks of late, more especially on those occasions on which his niece took he music-lesson.
Try as she would, she could but stamp her feet flat on the parquet, as though it had been the village-green. She dreaded her music-lesson.
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