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'I will beg permission to go and fetch Elizabeth, madam. 'Rightly thought of. Fetch her in my carriage. And, by the way, Mrs. Baerens was my old music-mistress, and is, I think, one year older than I. She can tell you on which side of seventy I am. 'I shall not require to ask, my lady, he said, sighing. 'Then we will send the carriage for Elizabeth, and have it out together at once.
She went straight to a house in Norton Square; and I managed to make some inquiries about her at a confectioner's shop in the neighborhood. The house belongs to a music-mistress; and this girl is a singer. 'Cynthia West, they call her I've seen her name in the newspapers.
Miss Bey, the housekeeper Miss Winch, and the head music-mistress, irreverently called Old Tom by the girls, sat at a separate table, where, at dinner-time, they did all the carving, and snatched what little dinner they could get in the intervals, patiently and foolishly regardless of their own digestions.
'I will beg permission to go and fetch Elizabeth, madam. 'Rightly thought of. Fetch her in my carriage. And, by the way, Mrs. Baerens was my old music-mistress, and is, I think, one year older than I. She can tell you on which side of seventy I am. 'I shall not require to ask, my lady, he said, sighing. 'Then we will send the carriage for Elizabeth, and have it out together at once.
She seemed in a somewhat dreamy and sentimental humour, and played tender little melodies and simple plaintive airs, that were more agreeable to Gustave than those grand examples of the mathematics of counter-point which she so loved to interpret. "You like this melody of Gretry's," said the music-mistress, as M. Lenoble seated himself close to the piano.
"'If you want a thing very badly, go straight for it, and GRAB it!" She put her common face close to Lucilla's disdainful one as, with an insolent emphasis, she made the quotation, then laughed as she turned away. "That is what you should have done you idiot!" she said. She was junior music-mistress at the high school for girls, and he mathematical master at the boys' college hard by.
Conan having come to the conclusion that it would be better for her to confine herself to charing, we at last settled down here, where I have now lived for many years. "You may be inclined to ask why I had not kept up my acquaintance with my music-mistress.
At eight the moon rose over Tinnick, and it was a great sight to see the yellow mass rising above the faint shores; and while he stood watching the moon an idea occurred to him that held him breathless. His sister had written to him some days ago asking if he could recommend a music-mistress to her.
Sally had become a welcome addition to the household. She had offered to pay liberally for her board while she stayed there and, during that visit, however long it should prove to be, they had been able to dispense with the services of Miss Hatch, the music-mistress, who came regularly every morning from ten till twelve and was a considerable drain on the net profits of the establishment.
"Mademoiselle Auricule," said the princess, presenting to his majesty a fat, fair girl of two-and-twenty, who at a village fete might have been taken for a peasant in Sunday finery, "the daughter of my music-mistress." The king smiled. Madame had never been able to extract four correct notes from either viol or harpsichord.
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