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Between the first pages she opened there was a five-pound bank-note; she turned the leaf, and found another, and another, and another at every leaf! Of these notes she counted one-and-twenty! whilst Fanny, unsuspicious of what was doing behind her back, was looking for the children's music-books. "Philip Folingsby! So, so!
'Yes, said Berkeley, moving a few music-books from the seat in the window-sill; 'come and sit by it, Miss Oswald. Mrs. Martindale, won't you put your shawl down? How's the Professor to-day? So sorry he couldn't come. 'Ah, he had to go to sit on one of his Boards, said the old lady, seating herself. 'But you know I'm quite accustomed to going out without him.
Miss Grey, you will favour us with a song?" Sophia's music-books were all in the house, and she could not sing without. Mr Enderby would fetch some, if she would give him directions what to bring. No; she could not sing without the piano. As it was clearly impossible to bring that, Philip feared the company must wait for the pleasure of hearing Miss Grey till another time.
That finished my domestic musical career. I have never sung for him since, except once or twice when he has asked me to try the effect of some passage in one of his music-books." "And do you never sing when you go out, as you used to?" "Only when he is not with me, or when people force me to. If he is in the room, I am so nervous that I can hardly get through the easiest song.
It was a breathless evening under the full moon, that implacable full moon beneath which, even more than beneath the dreamy splendor of noon-tide, Venice seemed to swelter in the midst of the waters, exhaling, like some great lily, mysterious influences, which make the brain swim and the heart faint a moral malaria, distilled, as I thought, from those languishing melodies, those cooing vocalizations which I had found in the musty music-books of a century ago.
Sometimes they come in a large family all together, the females with their hymn-books, and the men with their different musical instruments, bits of pet salvage from the wrecks of cottage homes. The women have sometimes children in their arms, or led by the hand; and they sometimes carry music-books for the men. I have seen them, too, with little handkerchiefs of rude provender for the day.
When, however, we reached New Bedford, he took our baggage, including three music-books, two of them collections by Dyer, and one by Shaw, and held them until I was able to redeem them by paying to him the amount due for our rides. This was soon done, for Mr.
She feared, as she laid aside her music-books, that there would be more to come about Adiante, but he spared her. He bowed to her departing, and strolled off by himself. Later in the day she heard that he was out scouring the country on one of her uncle's horses.
Not that a rupture of pacific relations must always result in such a case. The mere threat of war and the clearly proclaimed intention to wage it, if necessary, will often cause the opponent to give way. This intention must, however, be made perfectly plain, for "negotiations without arms are like music-books without instruments," as Frederick the Great said.
"She's a widow, didn't you say?" "She has a daughter. Surely I said so, dear?" "Does she fall into trout-ponds, and gas and giggle, and 'Oh, Major Cottah! and all that sort of thing?" "No, indeed. She's a very quiet girl, and very musical. She always came over here with her music-books composing, you know; and she generally works all day, so you won't "
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