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Thirty-five pounds a-year, and extra pay for teaching the smallest strummers at the piano." "Poor child! I wish she could stay at home with us, Susan," said Caleb, looking plaintively at his wife. "Mary would not be happy without doing her duty," said Mrs. Garth, magisterially, conscious of having done her own.
It had been reported by Tommy Dare, the leading Newport authority on monkeys, that he had heard him play Brahm's "Variations on Paganini" with his paws on a piano, "Hiawatha" on a xylophone with his feet, and "Home, Sweet Home" with his tail on a harp simultaneously, in Paris a year ago, and that alongside of Jockobinski all other musical prodigies of the age became mere strummers.
"I cannot have it strummed on and put out of tune by everybody." "But this is not everybody. The lady I want it for is a professional musician. Top of the tree." "The hardest strummers going." "But, mademoiselle, this lady is going to sing at the opera. She must study. She must have a piano. "Then she must leave the hotel."
I think pianos are for musicians, not strummers, who spoil all chance for any real conversation. If you are fortunate enough to have a musician in your family, that is different. Go ahead and give him a music room.
There is terrific mastery of words, which is like Shakespeare in felicity we do not encounter so often it seems to me. Thompson has scaled the white rainbow of the night, and sits in radiant company among the first planetary strummers of song. His diamond is pure, and the matrix that hid him so long from showing his glinted facets is chipped away of miseries carried down with death.
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