Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

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who was an Italian, clasped her hands in the true
Italian fashion. ' Ah, signorina, what a pity you
would not come before ! For now I am no longer
visiting at the Eubinsteins' house. This affair in the
Conservatorium ! You know, signorina, that my
husband has been obliged to take part with his
countrymen, and, in an article written by him in one
of the daily papers, has animadverted strongly on the
mode of proceeding adopted by Eubinstein. The
result was that when I met Madame Eubinstein in
the street the other day, she paused for one moment,
just to tell me, with expressions of regret, that her
family and mine could not continue to visit each other.'
On this same day when I spoke to Henselt about
Eubinstein, a little before two, I heard his well-
known step on the stairs, and as I opened the door
to admit him, he took off his fur in silence ; and
instead of at once making me sit down to the
piano, he said briefly, ' Please, some plain paper, a
good pencil, and don't interrupt me for a quarter
of an hour.' And sitting down, he wrote rapidly,
€very now and then saying, as he paused for a
moment, 'You will be surprised, very much sur-
prised !' When he had finished writing, he handed
the paper to me, saying, ' Eead that ' ; and I was
indeed surprised, but even more concerned than
surprised, for it was a draft of a letter to Eubinstein
which he had just written, and in it he had, in ex-
pressing his sympathy with Eubinstein's difficulties,