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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and had intended to sing at the opera; indeed, he had studied for three years at the Paris Conservatoire to that end; and there he had carried all before him, and given rise to the highest hopes. But his family, who were Catholics of the blackest and Legitimists of the whitest dye a and as poor as church ratsa had objected to such a godless and derogatory career; so the world lost a great singer, and the great singer a mine of wealth andfame. However, he had just enough to live upon, and had married a wife (a heretic ) who had just about as much, or as little; and " When In death I, hall calm recline, - . . Oh take my heart to my mbtreo dear hC8pCnt Uistlme, Tell her It lived upon smiles and wine,,, . Of the brightest hue while It lingered kere I" a H Cl D O t Li H18 money and hers, in scientific inventions a to little purpose, for well as he had learned how to sing, he had not been to any conservatoire where they teach one how to invent. So that, as he waited "for his ship to come home," he sang only to amuse his wife, as they say the nightingale does; and to ease himself of superfluous energy, and to charm the servants, and le Pere et la Mere Francois, and the five followers of Napoleon, and all and everybody who cared to listen, and last and least (and most ), myself. For this great neglected gift of his, on which he set so little store, was already to me the most beautiful and mysterious thing in the world; and next to this, my mother's sweet playing on the harp and piano, for she was an admirable musician. It was her custom to play at night, leaving the door of my bedroom ajar, and also the drawing- room door, so that I could hear her till I fell asleep. Sometimes, when my father was at home, the spirit would move him to hum or sing the air...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458840721 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458840727 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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