The First Violin: A NovelR. Bentley, 1877 |
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Adelaide Anna Sartorius answer asked beautiful child chorus cius companion concert door Elberthal Eugen Courvoisier eyes face feeling felt Frau Steinmann Fräulein Sartorius Friedhelm gentleman German glance groschen hair half hand handsome head heard heart Helfen Herr Courvoisier Herr Direktor Herr von Francius idea inquired Kaffeeklatsch kind knew Köln laugh lessons light lips little bow live Lohengrin looked manner mein Fräulein Merrick mind Miss Hallam Miss Wedderburn musician never opera orchestra Paradise Lost pause Perhaps Peter Le Marchant piano Prinz Eugen Probe Realschule remember seemed seen silence sing Sir Peter sisters Skernford smile sopran speak stared stood strange suddenly suppose sure talk Tannhäuser tell thalers thank theatre thing thought told tone took train turned Vincent violin voice voisier wahr walked window wish woman wonder word young ladies
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Seite 252 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Seite 279 - ... of saying something different from what one said before, because then, however forgotten your previous speech may be, somebody finds out its existence, and there goes on that process so hateful to members of Parliament, which may be denoted by the term "Hansardization.
Seite 22 - ... opportunity to express to him some thanks which are due him from Mr. Tippengray and myself. I am therefore obliged to ask you, my dear Miss Rose, to give to him a message from me, which, as it is one of gratitude, you will be pleased to deliver. " Not long ago, when Mr. Beam took occasion to tell me that he loved me and asked me to marry him, —I remember now that it was on the very day that Mr. Fetter's horse behaved so badly and, unfortunately for you, tipped you out of the tail end of the...
Seite 249 - I'm afraid you feel ill," said he. I denied it. But though I struggled on to the end, yet at last a deadly faintness overcame me. As the curtain went down amidst applause, everything reeled around me. I heard the bustle of the others — of the audience going away. I myself could not move. " Was ist denn rn.it ihm f" I heard Courvoisier say as he stooped over me.
Seite 244 - So !" said he, turning away again from the window : it was as dark as ever outside, and looking round the room again. " This is a dull-looking place," he added, gazing around it. " We'll soon make it different," said I, rubbing my hands and gazing round the room with avidity. " I have long wished to be able to inhabit this room. We must make it more cheerful, though, before the child comes to it. We'll have the stove lighted, and we'll knock up some shelves, and we'll have a piano in, and the sofa...
Seite 235 - Our orchestra contained, among its sufficiently varied specimens of nationality and appearance, nothing in the very least like this man, beside whom I felt myself blundering, clumsy, and unpolished. It was not mere natural grace of manner. He had that, but it had been cultivated somewhere, and cultivated highly. "Yes?" he said. "At seven — yes. It is ' Tannhauser ' to-night. And the rooms — I believe they have rooms in the house.
Seite 236 - I should like to see him," said I, politely and gracefully, seized by an impulse of which I felt ashamed, but which I yet could not resist. With that I stepped forward and came to examine the bundle. He moved the plaid a little aside and showed me a child — a very young, small, helpless child, with closed eyes, immensely long, black, curving lashes, and fine, delicate black brows. The small face was flushed, but even in sleep this child looked melancholy. Yet he was a lovely child — most beautiful...
Seite 130 - He spoke in the most perfectly matter-of-fact way, and I trembled. I feared lest this display of what Miss Hallam would consider little short of indecent laxity and Bohemianism would shock her so much that I should lose everything by it. It was not so, however. "Passion — abandon! I think you cannot understand what you are talking about !" said she. " My dear sir, you must understand that that kind of thing may be all very well for one set of people, but not for that class to which Miss Wedderburn...
Seite 223 - Nor feared to follow, in the offence Of false opinion, his own sense Of justice unsubdued; Nor shrunk from any consequence Of doing good. He looks his Angel in the face Without a blush : nor heeds disgrace, Whom nought disgraceful done Disgraces. Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.
Seite 247 - "No." The man continued his catechism, but in another direction. " Are you a friend of Helfen's ? " " I rather think Helfen has been a friend to me," said Courvoisier, smiling. " Have you found lodgings already ? " "Yes." " So ! " said his interlocutor, rather puzzled with the new arrival. I remember the scene well. Half a dozen of the men were standing in one corner of the room, smoking, drinking beer, and laughing over some not very brilliant joke ; we three were a little apart. Courvoisier, stately...