... why you are trying — those bullies! My mother wants you to carry on their musical education. How selfish of her! As if attending to these curst cocks ... ...nerous business when she had regained the art, for she had caught from her musical mother numerous airs that suited those songsters admirably. A far m... ... state of things for these parts, where as a rule the stamping drowned the music. The front door being open she could see straight through the house i... ... which she had inherited from her ballad singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well nigh drag her heart out of her boso... ...lare, sitting abstractedly reading from some book, periodical, or piece of music just come by post, hardly noticed that she was present at the table. ... ...les of meadowland, frequently divided, serpentining in purposeless curves, looping themselves around little islands that had no name, returning and re...