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Updated: August 4, 2024
I was certainly conscious of a sort of internal hearing of something when you called me, which was not that; it was as though I had fiddlestrings in my head and somebody was beginning to strum upon them. Germsell. Fiddlestrings indeed say rather fiddlesticks. I am surprised at a sensible man like yourself listening to such nonsense. You may be deaf, while my sense of hearing may be evolving.
Albans, as a Roman Youth. Chromoed as a Christmas card by Prang, and photograph copies everywhere. You're all right, Barker." One night Miss Swan said, in rapture with some momentary success, "Oh, I'm perfectly in love with this head!" Berry looked up from his banjo, which he ceased to strum. "Hello, hello, hel-lo!" Then the two broke into a laugh, in which Lemuel helplessly joined.
During one of her absences he slipped furtively downstairs into the drawing-room, where he began to strum on the piano, though the room was yet by no means properly warm. She came after him, admirably pretending not to notice that he was behaving unusually. She was attired for the street, and she carried his hat and his thickest overcoat.
Madame, Monsieur, and Mademoiselle Chapoulot had been wakened, and could not sleep for the noise; they called his attention to the fact that the day was quite long enough for rehearsals of theatrical music, and added that people ought not to "strum" all night in a house in the Marais. It was then three o'clock in the morning. At half-past three, La Cibot appeared, just as Pons had predicted.
Since the close of the war the "quarters" had fallen partly into disuse and had decayed rapidly, though some few were still tenanted by the former slaves, who gathered as of old in the doorways of an evening to strum upon broken-stringed banjos and to wrap the hair of their small offspring.
I adore music, and I can always tell." "Do you sing, too?" asked Keith. "I? No, unfortunately. I have no more voice than a crow. I strum a bit, but even that has been a good deal neglected lately. There's no temptation to keep up one's music here. I don't know a single soul in all this city who cares a snap of their finger for it." "We'll have to have some music together," suggested Keith.
"You'll be all right to strum the guitar and sport a diamond ring in a fortnight at the outside," said he. At the door he lectured Adelaide: "For God's sake, Miss Ranger, don't let his mother coddle him. He's got the makings of a man like his father not as big, perhaps, but still a lot of a man. Give him a chance! Give him a chance!
Youth is so profoundly absorbed in its own visions, that it is very rarely curious about the duller reveries of older people. It regards them as necessarily dreary, grey, wise, and prudent. The only thing it values is sympathy for itself, just as a child is far more interested in the few chords which it can strum on a piano than in the richest performance of a maestro.
"You haven't got on with that piece a bit!" "What's the good?" the pupil would remark, twisting round on the music stool; "I can play nearly all of it from ear!" "That's not the same" severely "that's only frivolling. I'm not here to teach you to strum." "No" Norah would agree abstractedly. "Mr. Groom, you know that poley bullock down in the far end paddock " "No, I don't," severely.
The contents of the warehouse had been shifted, native musicians had come up from Santa Maria, and every one about the home ranch who could strum a guitar was pressed into service. The storeroom was given over to the natives, and after honoring the occasion with their presence as patrons, the master and mistress, after the opening dance, withdrew in company with their guests.
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