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Updated: June 1, 2025
The second part began with Reissiger's overture, "Die Felsenmuhle;" Signor Belletti then sang the "Piff Paff," from Meyerbeer's "Huguenots;" Jenny Lind followed with the "Come per me sereno," from the "Sonnambula," for the first time in America; then Belletti with the "Miei rampolli," from Rossini's "Cenerentola;" and the concert ended with the "Dalecarlian Melody" and the "Mountaineer's Song," both for the first time, by Jenny Lind.
In Pontiac, one of the Magilles, the fiddler of the parish, made the following verse in English as a tribute of admiration for an heroic deed of his ancestor, of which the Cure of the parish, the good M. Santonge, had told him: "Piff! poem! ka-zoon, ka-zoon! That is the way of the organ tune And the ships are safe that day! Piff! poum! kazoon, kazoon!
Leave her to your mother and that girl, Jenny, who is like wax in your mother's hands and the hands of the Rev. Father Grimshaw. Piff!" Catherine said nothing, but she sought an opportunity of seeing something of Jenny. She found it, just before the day on which she and Mark were to leave London for their country house. Jenny had come as usual one morning, to read aloud to Mrs. Ardagh.
The monster, as she spoke, stretched out her hand, bending the thumb with a significant gesture. She continued in the same spiteful tone: "I tear you' har you so conceit' 'bout you' golding har, folks call. Piff! you' har da colour ob yella squash. I pull um out o' you' head in fistful, you call me Aunt Lucy 'gain." "I did not know it would offend you," replied the young girl, in a meek voice.
Oh, yes, as you say, I am a witch, and I know, I know! Come, I am spent. You men weary me, as men have always done, being but fools whom it is so easy to make drunk, and who when drunk are so unpleasing. Piff!
Hark ye, Ors' Anton'! when I heard the first piff, piff, says I to myself: 'Dash it, they're murdering my lieutenant! Then I heard boum, boum. 'Ha, ha! says I, 'that's the English gun beginning to talk he's firing back. But what on earth do you want with me, Brusco?" The dog guided him to the other field.
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