Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 230
had beenbroken by a shinny-stick; and he could notdo anything whatever with his left hand.He was constantly dropping his bass-notes,which, he said, were understood. And evenMiss Ferguson — most patient of teachers —declared that it was of no use. The piano to The Boy has been the most of-fensive of… … - MUSIC-LESSONS. he felt, for the first time, that music hadcharms. He had to practise half an hour a day, by athirty-minute sand-glass that could not be setahead; and he shed tears enough over TheCarnival of Venice to have raised the tide inthe Grand Canal. They blurred the sharpsand the flats on…
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