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Clarence Hervey suddenly stooped to pick it up, totally forgetting his hoop and his character. He threw down the music-stand with his hoop. Lady Delacour exclaimed "Bravissima!" and burst out a-laughing. Lady Boucher, in amazement, looked from one to another for an explanation, and was a considerable time before, as she said, she could believe her own eyes.
In a remote corner, embowered in palms, was a cottage piano, with a copy of the 'Kensington Coil' open on the music-stand. Roger had objected to a band. He didn't see in the least what they wanted with a band; he wouldn't go to the expense, and there was an end of it. She made up her mind to tell them to play loud there was a lot of music in a cornet, if the man would only put his soul into it.
Miss Melbury could endure it no longer. She rose, took a song from the music-stand, and approached us. "I am going to sing," she said, handing the music to him. "Please turn over for me, Mr. Sax." I think he hesitated but I cannot feel sure that I observed him correctly. It matters little. With or without hesitation, he followed her to the piano.
As her eyes met those of Hubert Tracy, a deathlike chill seized her, but was unnoticed by the company. "Madge has been indulged in idleness quite long enough, now we are to have some music," and sweeping across the room to the music-stand Mrs. Arnold began selecting her favorite pieces.
Close at hand stood a tall music-stand in style to correspond. It was laden with handsomely bound scores of all the German classics and the usual operas of the French and Italian schools. These were all ranged in precise order; nothing there seemed to have been disturbed for a year past. "My! isn't it grand!" sighed Jane. She already felt herself succumbing beneath these accumulated splendors.
I was quietly fiddling away one evening in the Civil Service band at King's College, as was my custom while my leisure was larger than at present, when the gorgeous porter of the college entered with a huge billet which he placed on my music-stand with a face of awe. It was addressed to me, and in the corner of it was written "Order for Execution."
The book is no longer in the music-stand. She took the volume away herself, so that nobody might find it out and ask her to play from it. I had no opportunity of discovering whether her purpose of the morning had changed or not, until she wished Sir Percival good-night and then her own words informed me that it was unaltered.
The grand duke in the gallery leaned over the velvet-buffered railing. All realized that a great voice was being tried before them. The Herr Direktor struck his music-stand sharply. It was enough. "Your highness has played a fine jest this day. Where does madame your guest sing, in Berlin or Vienna?" "In neither," answered her highness, mightily gratified with Gretchen's success.
The room had rather a bare look, after the bright prettiness of Waverley, though it contained all Delia's most cherished possessions a shelf of books, a battered old brown desk, her music-stand, and her violin. "Oh," she exclaimed, as her eye fell on the last, "can you play the violin? Will you play to me?"
He knew instinctively it was time to go on with the next movement, and that he must make an effort for the sake of others. Already there were signs of impatience in the great audience. Slowly he stepped upon the dais, steadying himself by means of the music-stand.
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