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But when he had finished Laura begged him to continue. "Please go on," she said. "Play anything. You can't tell how I love it." "Here is something I've always liked," he answered, turning back to the keyboard. "It is the 'Mephisto Walzer' of Liszt. He has adapted it himself from his own orchestral score, very ingeniously.
The performance was given by the staff band, which never leaves Batavia, and is said to be the best in the East Indies. I give the programme: FUR'S VATERLAND MARSCH C. Millöcker. WIENER FRAUEN WALZER J. Strauss. OUVERTURE JELVA F. Reisiger. GRUSS AUS DER FERNE INTERMEZZO J. Verhulst. MARSCH UND CHOR A. D. OPER. DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE W. A. Mozart. FANTAISIE LA REINE DE SABA Ch. Gounod.
Days of delicious dreaming were these, days of roaming on the emerald green turf under the stately and odorous pines, listening to the dash of the waterfalls, or watching the crimson sunset burning redly through the darkness of the branches, and in the moonlit evenings sitting under the trees to hear the entrancing music of a Hungarian string-band, which played divine and voluptuous melodies of the land, "lieder" and "walzer" that swung the heart away on a golden thread of sound to a paradise too sweet to name!
The piano, an old style Chickering, stood diagonally across the far corner of the room, by the closed sliding doors, and Laura sat down here and began to play the "Mephisto Walzer," which she had been at pains to learn since the night Corthell had rendered it on her great organ in the art gallery.
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