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She must have been patient and energetic, and she must have been willing to practice fine music. I knew a girl so brilliant that she was able to play a Beethoven sonata almost at sight when she had studied music less than a year. But she did not care for Beethoven. She preferred Offenbach, and she never became a cultivated musician.
He did not lift his haughty head to look at the wayfarer who meekly wrote his name in the register; he did not answer him when he begged for a cool room; he turned to the board on which the keys hung, and, plucking one from it, slid it towards Basil on the marble counter, touched a bell for a call-boy, whistled a bar of Offenbach, and as he wrote the number of the room against Basil's name, said to a friend lounging near him, as if resuming a conversation, "Well, she's a mighty pooty gul, any way, Chawley!"
Finally, Offenbach appeared. He was a German by birth and his musical ideas naturally rhymed with German in direct contradiction to the French words to which they applied. This constant bungling passed for originality. Sometimes it would have been necessary to change the division of a measure to get a correct melody, as in the song: Un p'tit bonhomme Pas plus haut qu'ça.
Fischer," she asked him. He shook his head. "I was born at Offenbach," he told her, "near Frankfurt. My father brought me out to America when I was eleven years old." "You must find the present condition of things a little trying for you," she observed. Oscar Fischer put on his glasses again. He did not answer for several moments.
"We had a few bars of Offenbach at the Park, and here we have Offenbach again," commented the doctor. "And again, only a few bars, for there goes our man." Appleton, having given as much attention to the few spectators as to the players, left the theatre and got into the cab that had been ordered for him.
In some of her peculiar phases she even reckons as items of her illimitable knowledge selections from her "favorites" among the French romantics, or the realistic school may be more to her taste. She rolls up her eyes for Mozart and Beethoven and Gottschalk, but her heart thumps for Offenbach, Lamothe or Strauss.
Frankfort was among the free cities which, even from Saxony, he had endeavoured to prepare for his reception; and he now called upon it, by a summons from Offenbach, to allow him a free passage, and to admit a Swedish garrison.
So far as the land in Offenbach is concerned, and the plan of the city that we finance road work is concerned—this is entirely impossible. The cost is too high, and furthermore we should not become involved in local civic projects. He sends you his loving greetings.... 12 April 1957
Everyone stared.... The military band stopped playing and the Offenbach polka came to a halt with one foot in the air. With his two rifles on his shoulders, his revolver by his side, unflinching and stately he passed through the throng, but on reaching the hotel his strength deserted him. The departure from Tarascon. The harbour at Marseille. The crossing. The Montenegrin prince.
"Felix!" said his wife, in a stern tone. "My dear," he answered recklessly, rendered bold by the champagne he had taken, "you observed " "Nothing particular," answered Mrs. Rolleston, glancing at him with a stony eye, "except that I consider Offenbach low." "I don't," said Felix, sitting down to the piano, from which Madge had just risen, "and to prove he ain't, here goes."
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