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When presently Flamby came out, radiant, followed by the troubled attendant carrying the grey gown, he was prepared for her. "I'm going to have it!" she said. "Am I frightfully extravagant?" "Not at all," Don assured her; and as she took out her purse. "No," he added, "you must not pay cash, Flamby. It would confuse Nevin's books.
A striking contrast to the keen white regret of this song is the setting of a group of "Children's Songs," by Robert Louis Stevenson. Nevin's child-songs have a peculiar and charming place. He has not been stingy of either his abundant art or his abundant humanity in writing them.
Arkwright, don't stop," objected Billy, springing to her feet and going to her music cabinet by the piano. "There's a little song of Nevin's I want you to sing. There, here it is. Just let me play it for you." And she slipped into the place the singer had just left. It was the beginning of the end. After Nevin came De Koven, and after De Koven, Gounod.
Nevin has also a cantata in making. It needs no very intimate acquaintance with Nevin's music to see that it is not based on an adoration for counterpoint as an end. He believes that true music must come from the emotions the intelligent emotions and that when it cannot appeal to the emotions it has lost its power. He says: "Above everything we need melody melody and rhythm.
Harrison's favorite music was Nevin's "Good Night, Beloved" and the Sousa marches. The soundness of Mrs. Cleveland's musical taste was shown by her liking for the "Tannhauser" overture and other music of that character. The Marine Band played all the music for President Cleveland's wedding, which took place in the Blue Room of the White House.
The two sat down on a rude granite bowlder, and the elder having waited until his companion had regained his breath, said: "You'll fare best wi' me, lad, if you tell the truth in as few words as may be; I dinna like fine speeches." "Mr. Scott, I am Duncan Nevin's bookkeeper and cashier. He's a tea dealer in the Gallowgate of Glasgow. I'm short in my cash, and he's a hard man, so I run away."
Gray told me," remarked Anne, "that Miss Nevin's life had been one long sacrifice to the pleasure of others. First her father, then her step-sister and now Eleanor. She was engaged to be married to a young English officer, and he died of fever while stationed in India. So, there is reason for her sad expression."
Nevin's first published work was a modest "Serenade," with a neat touch of syncopation, which he wrote at the age of eighteen. It opens with a bright gavotte, in which adherence to the classic spirit compels a certain reminiscence of tone.
"You have a safe at your office. Will you permit me to place these in it? and come with me until I do so?" "Certainly. Come right along. It's but a step." Wrapped in a silken handkerchief Nevin's watch, with the envelope containing the diamonds, was stored in a little drawer within the safe and securely locked.
They include four of Stevenson's, the best being the captivating "In Winter I get up at Night," and a setting of Eugene Field's "Little Boy Blue," in which a trumpet figure is used with delicate pathos. Nevin's third opus included three exquisite songs of a pastoral nature, Goethe's rollicking "One Spring Morning" having an immense sale.
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