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Updated: May 28, 2025
In the evening we heard them in the billiard-room below lifting their voices in the lays of our college muse, and waking to ecstasy the living piano in the strains of our national ragtime.
Noel clasped her hands, and her eyes seemed to shine in the gloom. "I want music and dancing and light, and beautiful things and faces; but I never get them." "No, there does not exist in this town, or in any other, a place which will give you that. Fox-trots and ragtime and paint and powder and glare and half-drunken young men, and women with red lips you can get them in plenty.
The oldest daughter was only seventeen, but she looked twenty-three. She showed that she'd had enough experience in her life, though, to be gray. There was a tortured soul behind her music. Even when she played a ragtime tune she would repeat the same notes slowly and get a chord out of them that went straight to the heart.
"No ragtime, I s'pose?" he said, after a particularly depressing fugue resounded its last echoes. "No," and Ruth glanced at him." Mr. Schuyler didn't care for rag time on the phonograph," she added, perhaps remembering Dotty Fay. We stayed late. Several times Stone proposed our departure, but Ruth urged us to remain longer or began some subject of interest that held us in spite of ourselves.
"The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" was what is known as a "water picture," and "Doug," as a comedy detective, was compelled to make a human submarine of himself, not to mention several duels in the dark with Japanese thugs and opium smugglers. "Another day of it," he grinned, "and I'd have grown fins." "Manhattan Madness" was really nothing more than St. Vitus's dance set to ragtime.
As he walked, striding along with splendid energy, he whistled to himself no cheap ragtime air, but Handel's Largo, with an appreciation which bespoke musical feeling of no common sort. The Billionaire caught sight of him, just as the car slowed to take the sharp turn by the station. Instant recognition followed. Flint's eyes narrowed sharply. "Hm! The same fellow," he grunted to himself.
I've always been sorry since that I didn't make him take it back it never did anything but harm to me. But he had his way. He laid it on the table and said he wouldn't feel right, and took my hand and I just didn't care. "Well, what do you think I did after he'd gone? I went and played a piece on the piano, and I never can bear to hear that ragtime to this day. I couldn't seem to feel anything.
An hour later, had the boarders listened outside the flat of the head clerk, they would have heard issuing from his bathroom the cooling murmur of running water and from his gramophone the jubilant notes of "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
"Good evening!" he remarked with impersonal friendliness as he passed her; and from the quality of his voice she inferred, as she had done on that May afternoon, that he was without culture, probably without education. He went inside; the door of his front room opened and shut, and after a minute or two the snatch of ragtime floated merrily through his window.
"He has been taking money from a man who was bent on beating me at any price!" Giddiness rose and swayed her, and she beat Ragtime mercilessly for his fear. Instinct clamored flight, and she forced herself to wait, panting for that other shot which might leave her, too, lying in the road. But even in that first frozen moment she began to reason clearly.
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