Whistler as I knew him . pecially during those violent parts—his bow seemed to travel up and down the stringsso rapidly, I cannot imagine how he does it. It wasthe dexterity that he admired: the music he did notunderstand. Whistler had one song which he always sang, andsometimes he whistled it. It was called, And hisHeart was True to Poll. There was never any moreof it, so far as I could make out; and whenever apicture was going Avell, or he was especially pleasedabout anything, I used to hear him singing in a high,falsetto voice, And his heart was true to I first came in touch with
Whistler as I knew him . pecially during those violent parts—his bow seemed to travel up and down the stringsso rapidly, I cannot imagine how he does it. It wasthe dexterity that he admired: the music he did notunderstand. Whistler had one song which he always sang, andsometimes he whistled it. It was called, And hisHeart was True to Poll. There was never any moreof it, so far as I could make out; and whenever apicture was going Avell, or he was especially pleasedabout anything, I used to hear him singing in a high,falsetto voice, And his heart was true to I first came in touch with Whistler, there wascontinually in his company a man who exercised asuperficial though extraordinarily strong influenceover him. He was a strange character with a quaintsense, altogether his own, of the relative meanings ofmine and thine. In fact, he was generally knownamong us as the robber pure and simple. The factthat he robbed his friends, curiously enough, in no TILLIE—A MODEL Elaborately touched in water SEATED GIRLUnique state. f *
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