Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 26, 2025
Gyp had never disliked him less. But her instincts were on the watch. After lunch, they went out across the garden to see the music-room, and he sat down at the piano. He had the deep, caressing touch that lies in fingers of steel worked by a real passion for tone. Gyp sat on the divan and listened. She was out of his sight there; and she looked at him, wondering.
It was only toward the end of the sitting, which, by-the-way, took place in Miss Halsey's library and music-room, that the unexpected suddenly happened, the inexplicable came to pass. "We were gathered about a long table, with Mrs. Smiley at one end sandwiched between the editor of the local paper and myself.
She wondered which she would prefer, to face Owen or to brave the effect that she knew Mass would produce upon her. She was in the music-room, looking through the first act of "Grania," and thinking that perhaps after all she might remain on the stage and create the part. Her father had gone to St.
Aaron caught a faint whiff of perfume from the little orange trees in tubs round the wall. "Will you get the flute?" she said as they entered. "And will you sing?" he answered. "Play first," she said. He did as she wished. As the other night, he went into the big music-room to play. And the stream of sound came out with the quick wild imperiousness of the pipe. It had an immediate effect on her.
There were two maids already installed, but Patty found plenty to do in superintending matters, and she hadn't much more than completed the decorations of the table, when the guests began to come. "Isn't the apartment lovely?" exclaimed Mona Galbraith, as she went through the rooms. "This music-room, or living-room, or whatever you call it, is just dear! Who selected the furnishings?" "Oh, Mr.
Then, for five days, no letter came. And, with each blank morning, the ache in her grew a sharp, definite ache of longing and jealousy, utterly unlike the mere feeling of outraged pride when she had surprised Fiorsen and Daphne Wing in the music-room a hundred years ago, it seemed.
The hours wore on; the noble guests could speak of nothing but the anticipated fête and its attendant pleasures, while they whiled away the intervening hours in the library, the music-room, the garden, wherever their taste dictated, for freedom was ever the password of Airslie; but Caroline joined them not.
Living-room, dining-room, music-room, library they would all be cleared of the larger pieces of furniture, the double-doors thrown open. The string band from Rocky Bend would come. Judith would send out invitations to the nicer people there and to the ranches hereabout. She would have a barbecue, there would be races and the usual holiday games, then the dance.
He had said, "You might play that again, will you?" and, later, "Thanks". He had come into the music-room while Sheen was practising one afternoon, and had sat down, without speaking, on a chair by the door. When Sheen had played for the second time the piece which had won his approval, Bruce thanked him and left the room.
All of which points to the obvious fact that even gentlemen with perfectly-balanced legal brains, occasionally mis-read the result of force of character over circumstances. He was shown into the music-room and was admiring a genuine Greuze when Mrs. Chichester came in. She greeted him tragically and motioned him to a seat beside her. "Well?" he smiled cheerfully. "And how is our little protegee?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking