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Some banter had passed between them to this effect; he said he should take them in on his way home to Syracuse. Christine would not have hesitated to write to him and remind him of his promise; but she had learned to distrust her literature with Beaton since he had laughed at the spelling in a scrap of writing which dropped out of her music-book one night.
I felt as tired as if I had done a hard day's work, and was somewhat appalled at realizing that the day had barely begun. I lit a cigar and sat down to Helen's piano. I am not a musician, but even the chords of a hand-organ would have seemed sweet music to me on that morning. The music-book nearest to my hand was a church hymn-book, and the first air my eye struck was "Greenville."
The president and vice-president knelt facing each other. The priests, deacons, and sub-deacons followed according to their rank. There were slenderer benches, and these were for the choir; and from a music-book placed on wings of the great golden eagle, the leader conducted the singing.
There were two muskets, and some powder-flasks hung up against the wall; but there was no food, although an iron pot and a saucepan, with a place where a fire had been made, showed that provisions had at one time been cooked there. On a shelf there were several books, both in English and in foreign languages, and above them was a flute with a music-book.
Thanks to his success in laying his hand on the wrong music-book, there would now be a meeting two good days before the elopement could take place between the lord's daughters and the rector's wife! The guests of the evening began to appear by twos and threes. The gentlemen below stairs left the dinner-table, and joined them. The small drawing-room was pleasantly filled, and no more.
"She said it was Beethoven, who is thought to be fine musician," said the collector; "he has quite a reputation." "Not in Nemours, I'm sure of that," said Madame Cremiere. "I believe uncle made her play it expressly to drive us away," said Massin; "for I saw him give that little minx a wink as she opened the music-book."
"Pure maiden," he murmured half-aloud: "pure stars," he added with a smile, and went peacefully to bed. But Lemm sat a long while on his bed, a music-book on his knees. He felt as though sweet, unheard melody was haunting him; already he was all aglow and astir, already he felt the languor and sweetness of its presence.. but he could not reach it.
She took her music-book, bowed coolly, and made her exit through the front door, which she closed after her. In the hammock that was suspended on the eastern side of the piazza, Dr. Grey had thrown himself to rest; and meanwhile, to search for some surgical operation recorded in one of his books.
Bazalgette, spiteful as mortified vanity is apt to be, did not know the depth of anguish her subtle vengeance inflicted on David Dodd. He was pale and stern with the bitter struggle for composure. He ground his teeth, fixed his eyes on the music-book, and plowed the merry tunes as the fainting ox plows the furrow.
For the first time in her experience of the sisters her heart led her instinctively to the elder of the two. Norah was still in her own room. She was sitting on the couch by the window, with her mother's old music-book the keepsake which Mrs. Vanstone had found in her husband's study on the day of her husband's death spread open on her lap.
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