Out in the World; The Story of Claire Benedict (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...and the capacities of her helpers. She chose simple, tender melodies, narrative poems such as appeal to the heart, with one or two wonderful solos, and this quartette, which was new and difficult, but full of power. They sang it presently, for the first time--Claire and Alice Ansted, Harry Matthews and a friend of his who had been drawn in for the occasion. It was the first time that even her girls had heard Claire's voice in its power. They said not a word when it was ended, but they looked at one another in a startled way, and presently Ruth Jennings apologized in undertone for its power over her: "I'm sure I don't know what was the matter with me. I never cried before at the sound of music. I have read of people doing it, and I thought it rather absurd but I could not help it. Girls, I wonder what the Ansteds think 1" What Alice Ansted thought might have been expressed in part in her first astonished comment: "The idea of your singing in South Plains " However, she said more than that in the course of the evening--said things which gave Claire much more pleasure; for instance: "How horridly out of order that little wretch is Why don't you have it tuned? It would be a little more endurable then, or at least a little less intolerable. Our pianotuner is coming out to-morrow, and I mean to send him down here. The idea of having nothing but a rickety chair for a music-stool --Louis, what has become of that pianostool we used to have in our library in town? Did you store it with the other things? Well, just bring it out tomorrow. Miss Benedict will get another fall if she depends on this old chair any longer.--What is that you are sitting on? A pile of old music-books, I declare The whole thing is disgraceful. Miss Benedict, do you s...