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Reminiscences of a portrait painter (1894)

Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg and Company · leaf 264

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as opened by means ofan interior cord. No servant was visible.But the abbe himself came forward togreet us, holding a Roman lamp high up,so as to see his way. The characteristichead, with the long iron-gray hair, thesharp-cut features and piercing darkeyes, the tall, lank body draped in thepriestly… … FRANZ LISZT. Men of Letters. 221 than Liszt. He played for us on hisfine American piano, with which he wasdelighted ; then he showed us over hisbachelor establishment, which was by nomeans the cell of an austere monk; andevidently wished to make a good impres-sion on his illustrious visitor. Taking…

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