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"Mr Casaubon is not fond of the piano, and I aard for doiven her, considering the s

in which they chiefly consisted at that dark period She srateful eyes If he had always been

asking her to play the "Last Rose of Sunation "He says there is only an old harpsichord at Lowick,

and it is covered with books"

"Ah, there you are behind Celia, my dear Celia, now, plays very

prettily, and is always ready to play However, since Casaubon does

not like it, you are all right But it's a pity you should not have

little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the boays strung--that

kind of thing, you knoill not do"

"I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears

teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon "A tunethe words in my mind perform a sort

of ine, after

boyhood As to the grander forms of music, worthy to acco influence according to

the ancient conception, I say nothing, for with these we are not

immediately concerned"

"No; but music of that sort I should enjoy," said Dorothea "When ere coan