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Beeton, without a moment's hesitation. 'Double it; or I'll break up half my sticks and burn the rest. He felt his way to a bookstand that supported a pile of sketch-books, and wrenched out one of the mahogany pillars. 'That's sinful, sir, said the housekeeper, alarmed. 'It's my own. One hundred or 'One hundred it is. It'll cost me three and six to get that there pilaster mended.
On the other hand these sketch-books bear witness to the extreme fertility of Beethoven's genius. Thayer estimates that the number of distinct ideas noted in them, which remained unused, is as large as the number which he used; and he refers to this as a commentary on the remark which Beethoven made toward the close of his life: "It seems to me as if I were only just beginning to compose."
Dinner had been served, and I had helped to pay for my portion by tacking a sketch on the wall behind the chair of the hostess. This high valuation was not intended as a special compliment to me, the wall being already covered with similar souvenirs from the sketch-books of half the painters in Europe.
Admire his collection of coins, prints, and water-colour drawings, and you will win his heart. Upon my word, if you can be contented with a quiet country life, I don't see why you should not get on very well here. From breakfast to lunch, Mr. Fairlie's drawings will occupy you. After lunch, Miss Fairlie and I shoulder our sketch-books, and go out to misrepresent Nature, under your directions.
Well! well! at least I shall not be stared to death here, shall not be tormented by eye-glasses and sketch-books; can live in that dim, dark, greenish den yonder, unobserved and possibly forgotten and finally sleep undisturbed in the dank shade of those deodars, with twittering birds overhead and a sobbing sea at my feet.
Some of the sketch-books of the Bonn period are in the British Museum, and an examination of them is of interest as it shows his method of composing. Beethoven all through life was a hard worker and a hard taskmaster to himself.
If you have any block sketch-books? 'Could procure some, my Lord. James looked at his watch, while the man dived into his innermost recesses. 'The tide! he said. 'Never mind, we shall only stick in the mud. 'How could you expect to find anything here? A half-crown paint-box is their wildest dream. 'Keep quiet, Jem, go and look out some of those library books, like a wise man.
Some of the drawings of savages and masks which we see to-day on the stray leaves of his sketch-books may relate to these figures, but we know for certain that he was actually employed by Messer Galeazzo to arrange this masquerade.
'My bed and I are old companions, said Ferdinand, 'and we agreed very well. I tell you what, my dear Glastonbury, we will have a stroll together this morning and talk over our plans of last night. Go into the library and look over my sketch-books: you will find them on my pistol-case, and I will be with you anon. In due time the friends commenced their ramble.
And Nottebohm, who has studied these sketch-books more thoroughly than any one else, thinks that if Beethoven had elaborated all the symphonies which he began in these books we should have at least fifty instead of nine.
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