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Excerpt: ... was turning the pages. The chords, weird and melancholy, seemed to permeate his whole being; sad, haunting music, that spoke of toil, tears, death and division, failure and defeat, hapless love and loveless happiness. After a polonaise, Patty stopped. "If music were only lasting, like a painting, a statue, a book," she said; "but it isnt. Why these things haunt me every day, but I can recollect nothing; I have to come back to the piano. It is elusive." "And the most powerful of all the arts that arouse the emotions. Hang it when I hear a great singer, a great violinist, half the time I find an invisible hand clutching me by the throat . Patty, honestly now, didnt you write that letter?" "Yes," looking him courageously in the eyes. "And I hope you were not laughing when you said all those kind things about it." "Laughing? No," gravely, "I was not laughing. Play something lively; Chaminade; I am blue to-night." So Patty played the light, enchanting sketches. In the midst of one of them she stopped suddenly. "What is it?" he asked. "I thought I heard the boats whistle. Listen. Yes, there it is. It must be a telegram. They never come up to the head of the lake at night for anything less. There goes John with a lantern." "Never mind the telegram," he said; "play." A quarter of an hour later John and Kate came in. "A telegram for you, Dick," John announced, sending the yellow envelope skimming through the air. Warrington caught it deftly. He balanced it in his hand speculatively. "It is probably a hurry-call from the senator. I may have to go back to town to-morrow. I have always hated telegrams." He opened it carelessly and read it. He read it again, slowly; and Patty, who was nearest to him, saw his face turn gray under the tan and his lips tremble. He looked from one to the other dumbly, then back at the sheet in his hand. "Richard " said Kate, with that quick intuition which leaps across chasms of doubt and arrives definitely. "My aunt died this...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153625715 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153625717 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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