A Practical Reader with Exercises in Vocal Culture (Paperback)

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: view had not been hitherto perceptible, " I have to thank you for your kindness this morning. But I can't decide now. In any case I am greatly obliged to you. It was very bold of me to ask you to take this trouble." When he had taken up his hat and was going to make his bow, Gwendolen's better self, conscious of an ingratitude which the clear-seeing Klesmer must have penetrated, made a desperate effort to find its way above the stifling layers of egotistic disappointment and irritation. Looking at him with a glance of the old gayety, she put out her hand, and said with a smile, "If I take the wrong road it will not be because of your flattery." " God forbid that you should take any road but where you will find and give happiness," said Klesmer fervently. Then in foreign fashion, he touched her fingers lightly with his lips, and in another minute she heard the sound of his departing wheels upon the gravel.?Daniel Derenda. SHIPWRECKED. Fbom Tub French Of Francois Copf-be Before the wine-shop which o'erlooks the beach Sits Jean Gofillo, rough of mien and speech; Our coast-guard now whose arm was shot away In the great fight of Navarino Bay: Puffing his pipe he slowly sips his grog. And spins sea-yarns to many an old sea-dog Sitting around him. Yes, lads, hear him say, "Pis sixty years ago this very day Since first I went to sea; on board, you know, Of La Belle Honorine?lost long ago,? An old three-masted tub, rotten almost, Just fit to burn, bound for the Guinea coast. We set all sail. The breeze was fair and stiff. My boyhood had been passed 'neath yonder cliff, Where an old man?my uncle, so he said? Kept me at prawning for my daily bread. At night he came home drunk. Such kicks and blows. Ah me! What children suffer no man knows! But o...