The First Violin

had evidently struck Herr von Francius, and of his intended

n of last night, and yet the same. He looked even younger now than on the estrade last night, and quiet though his demeanor was, attuned to a gentlemanly calm and evenness, there was still the o

von Francius," said I. "H

m her to me with a somew

lked about all sorts of trifles, while I sat by

y opinion upon Miss

en it another trial. She se

she wished me to have every advantage I could get from my stay in Elbert

ss Hallam's generosity to one so st

using a short ti

dramatic point of what we were singing-a quality which I do not too often find in my pup

, startled, and thinkin

When Miss Hallam spoke of "putting the matter into h

. "That is quite out of the question. Miss

hinking of anything else. I do not think the gn?diges Fr?ulein will ever make a good singer of mere songs. She requires emotion to b

isplay of what Miss Hallam would consider little short of indecent laxity and Bohemiani

ell for one set of people, but not for that class to which Miss Wedderburn belongs. Her father is a clergyman"-von Fraucius bowed, as if he did not quite see what th

teach?" said h

t is what she wishes to d

added as if making a last effort, "I would just mention that, apart from artistic cons

smiled with

and I look at the matter from quite different points of

sarcastic, ambiguou

, mein F

ble to think about it at all, but conscious that opposition was useless. And,

ice; then I must see how many lessons a week you will require, and must give you instructions about practicing. You must understand that it is not pleasure or child'

e time for it," I murmured, looki

l have time for it

ertainly. Fr?ulein Sartorius has one; she will lend it to us for

g him, as he told Miss Hallam

f Anna's sitting-room she c

allow us the use of your

nto the room. "I am sorry I have

account," said he, with touchin

e observed, shrug

tient gesture, seated himself at the piano,

inquired, looking up at m

! I am her

revent you from following the

ollowing any career at all," said I. "And, besides, how do

e that old lady to my way of thinking!" he added. "I wish

rial" that he gave me; we

going to talk to Miss Hallam now. You please not come. I wish to

said I in a

I allow no third person to be present in my private lessons, but go on the prin

turned into my room, shook hands with me in a fri

ke any one I had ever seen before; and how awfully coo

mber, I carried the remembrance of it with me for days as a ray of sunshine. He seemed never surprised to find how much work had been prepared for him, although he would express displeasure sometimes at its quality. He was a teacher whom it was impossible not to respect, whom one obeyed b