Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

1 86 MY MUSICAL EXPERIENCES
I told him that I had quite made up my mind to
go to St. Petersburg in order to make a thorough
study of his method with Mademoiselle Katy Eanus-
chewitz, provided only that I could be sure of having
a suitable home when I arrived there.
Henselt, who was at all times chary of speech, and,
except on rare occasions, very undemonstrative,
merely observed, 'You are doing the right thing.'
Then, after a few minutes, he added, 'It is not to
Mademoiselle Eanuschewitz, but to Mademoiselle
Heinrichsen, that I should wish you to go, if you
indeed follow up yoUr plan. She is, indeed, no artist
like the former, but she has taught for twenty-five
years in the Imperial Institutes, and she is, of all
my teachers, the one who understands my method
best.'
I wrote, accordingly, to this lady, and asked her if
it would be possible to find a nice family who would
give me rooms and board, for that by Henselt's advice
I wished to study his method under her guidance. I
also asked her if she could arrange to meet me at the
railway-station on my arrival in St. Petersburg; for,
as I did not know a word of Eussian, I should not be
able to direct the coachman where to drive me.
Henselt must, I believe, have written to her about
me, for she replied without any delay, and all she said
seemed most clear and satisfactory. She promised to
meet me at the railway-station, and to accompany me
to a hotel, where I could remain until I had seen