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She has a powerful and brilliant tone, with sweet tenderness and sympathy, which appeal to the soul of the listener, and she confines her repertoire to the highest class of musical compositions. She has recently succeeded Miss Emily Shinner as first violin in the quartet which that talented lady established in England.

He commands a battleship for a living now; and Homeburg is exactly seven miles from the nearest stream that is navigable by a duck. We used to walk out to that stream Saturday mornings, spend four hours building a dam and then swim painfully on our elbows and knees in the puddle we had made until dark, but Shinner wouldn't go in.

In those days pupils of the fair sex were not admitted to the Hochschule, and Miss Shinner began to study under Herr Jacobsen. It happened, however, that a lady from Silesia arrived at Berlin, intending to take lessons of Joachim, but unaware of the rules against the admission of women to the Hochschule. Joachim interested himself in her, and she was examined for admission.

Also I have had direct news from my correspondents in Germany. It was a triumph there, was it not?" "Yes," said Audrey. "After Dusseldorf. My husband did not make much money " "That will not trouble you," Mr. Shinner smiled easily. "But somebody did the agents did." "Perhaps not so much as you think, madam, if I may say so. Perhaps not so much as you think. And we must all live unfortunately.