. Discords. d in a sustained chord. Madame flungthe curtain aside, and entered with a noise-less step. So noiseless was it that it wasnot heard, and, as an animal retreats from a 136 DISCORDS hunter, Madame stepped back, and back,until she stood once more outside the hand still held the curtain so that shemight see. This new thing was so terriblethat there would have to be much seeingbefore she could believe. For Jeannot sat on the piano-stool lookingup with eyes of love at the face of the girlwho bent over him,—a girl about whom hisarm was clasped, a girl whose small, paleface was al
. Discords. d in a sustained chord. Madame flungthe curtain aside, and entered with a noise-less step. So noiseless was it that it wasnot heard, and, as an animal retreats from a 136 DISCORDS hunter, Madame stepped back, and back,until she stood once more outside the hand still held the curtain so that shemight see. This new thing was so terriblethat there would have to be much seeingbefore she could believe. For Jeannot sat on the piano-stool lookingup with eyes of love at the face of the girlwho bent over him,—a girl about whom hisarm was clasped, a girl whose small, paleface was alight with tenderness— is an old tradition that youth calls toyouth. This flashed into Madames dizzybrain as for one burning, horrible momentshe looked. Liselle bent lower and theykissed each other, but neither spoke. Thesunshine lay like a golden carpet upon thefloor. The room was glorified, magnificent. Madame dropped the curtain. 137 A QUESTION OFMOTIVE DISCORDS & Question of jftlotfoe. HE violinist, spas-modically exploited byfashionable leaders in London, and nowthe ostensible draw-ing-card at LadyGriggss evening re-ception, had just comeback to earth in a tri-umphant staccato finale. The last notes ofthe accompaniment were becoming mergedin the ascending tumult of polite conversa-tion;— one of the trying but necessaryinterludes being past, people were hastilyenjoying themselves, chattering volubly and,in a measure, against time, always with theimminent danger of another solo from thecelebrity. At an evening musical, one maywatch human nature with extraordinaryease. Whether a certain safety is felt undercover of what should be a general concen-tration of attention, or whether some uncon-scious effect of the music brings inherent 141 DISCORDS emotions to the surface, I know not. But ifyou look about you during a musical num-ber, you may constantly behold a very strangedisarray of masks, and may be startled bythe sight of utterly unprecedented passionspaint
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