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gttftet . " * My guide Opened a door , leaving me outside , but soon « # 4 tfpj > earoa with a light in his hand . We entered the room , and i ^ « gjgte&m ne& surprised me not a little * W ain scoted walls , of < klfck / shining wood , old-fashioned chairs , a clock in a gr ^ at gtfeged tox , and a large mirror surrounded by a frame carved into
tni » &i ¥ e' arabesques , gave to the whole apartment a strange , iffHtetiftg took of tarnished splendour . In the midst of the room flfttKi n sn ^ ali jriano , and upon it an immense porcelain inkstand , vfittk "aGifeP *! quires of ruled music-paper . A s « coad glance at thOie totals of a composer convinced me that they had been for flattie time untouched , for the paper was perfectly yelloW , and a 6 * hmeb covered the entire
inkstand-The stranger walked to an antique cabinet , placed in ain angle of tlie < fehaftfaber , and , drawin g a curtain , discovered it to be filled with large , well-bound books , upon which were stamped in golden letters , Orleo , Armida , Alceste , Iphigenia ; in short , I saw before me all the works of Gluek .
The stranger fixed h ^ look s upon me , and seizing one of the books—it was the Armida—advanced with a solemn step towards &eBfaAO . I opened it and pushed up the desk . He appeared i ^^ redfefire ittV -attentions with pleasure . He opened the musics m ^— ) iS ^ W I x sit $ & noy astonishment when saw that the ruled J ^^ eV ba $ not one single note marked upon it ! f 1 atii going to play the overture / said the stranger ; I will tliibk yiti toitLTXi phe leaves over , carefully / _ _ ^ , —— - ^ - - _ - __^ ^^ - _ _ , ___ ^ - ___ ^ _ _ — - „ _ _ - , _ _
' iTr&roi&iaeiL md he commenced the majestic Tempo di Marcia . Id wa ' aJieiro jbcJ introduced so many original phrases that my ffinc&ijffimecit i ^ sr ^ eteed more and more . Sometimes his bro * s witriurtad , axii ^ ' k' lyry seemed to possess him—sometimes his eyes 6 fim 2 Mn V 35 k ike / fa , ' and his countenance expressed the deepest ^ Oyp ^ , a ? m btuLdp were employed In the most striking SW&fifoofa' and ; lWlll&lit variations , he sail ? the tbema in S W ^ Urm ^ - % ^""" Mi the time I observed his looks afid WtiB&tffl iarniat the leaves . When the overture Was finished , % VM ^ mf ^ m ^; pt ^ fetv toomeQ t « , # it h' aose 4 eye » ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 808, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/52/
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