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M. Vinteuil had come in with his daughter and had sat down beside us. He belonged to a good family, and had once been music-master to my grandmother's sisters; so that when, after losing his wife and inheriting some property, he had retired to the neighbourhood of Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.
There were amateur concerts, and glee-clubs, and subscriptions for sacred music; and once every five years there was the great C Festival. In this town Mrs. Leslie established Alice: she placed her under the roof of a ci-devant music-master, who, having retired from his profession, was no longer jealous of rivals, but who, by handsome terms, was induced to complete the education of Alice.
In the bowing man, with a prematurely bald head and a servile smile, he recognized Mrs. Gallilee's music-master. The inevitable inference followed. His mother might be in the room. After careful examination of the scanty audience, he failed to discover her thus far. She would certainly arrive, nevertheless. My money's worth for my money was a leading principle in Mrs. Gallilee's life.
"My dear Miss West, are you aware that singing is a profession in itself, and requires a professional training, like other things?" "Yes. But I can sing," said the girl decidedly. "Where did you learn?" "At school, and then of an old music-master in the boarding-house where I am living." If he had not been afraid of wounding her feelings, Hubert would have shrugged his shoulders.
And be a friend to me, please; I don't understand myself: and I want a friend who can understand me, very much indeed. Helena Landless kissed her, and retaining both her hands said: 'Who is Mr. Jasper? Rosa turned aside her head in answering: 'Eddy's uncle, and my music-master. 'You do not love him? 'Ugh! She put her hands up to her face, and shook with fear or horror.
In London the most difficult pieces by Bach and Handel were put before the boy, but he played them at sight, and without the slightest mistake. Bach was at that time music-master to the English Queen, and he took special delight in young Mozart.
The family comprised Spanish parents, married daughter and husband, three unmarried sisters, a brother, and a lodger an old Spanish music-master. The fonda was run by the married daughter, a lady with a temper, who made everybody else work: her mother and one sister cooked; the second sister was busy with a trousseau and a young man; the third and prettiest Amanda waited on us.
It flushed deeper at her own falsehood, as she muttered some evasive words about hearing of him from Mrs. Latimer. "Yes, he is a music-master; but he does not get much money at it, and he teaches the classics as well. He has come up to teach us music since Miss Manning left; mamma said that we ought not to lose our lessons." Mamma! How the word, applied to Barbara, grated on her ear.
"Cicely," said Merry after a long pause, "when these glorious holidays come to an end, and the Aylmer House girls have gone to Aylmer House, what shall you and I do?" "Do," said Cicely "do? I suppose what we've always done. A fresh governess will be found, and another music-master, and we'll work at our lessons and do the best we can." Merry gave a deep sigh.
The next week she told the two children to go to a distant part of the palace grounds where there was a deep wood, and see what they should find there. They obeyed, and ran eagerly down the path to the forest where they had often played under the trees and in the caves in the rocks. They came to a little greenwood circle completely hidden from the roads and there found their music-master.
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