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When Miss Romeyn rose froh to be a young lady, for she was slightly above , however, for her figure was slight and girlish, and while her bearing was graceful it had not that assured and pronounced character to which he had been accustomed

"She evidently has not seen awky, I like her better than if she were blase Anything but your blase girls," he observed to himself, with a consciousness that he was an experienced -rooue's end the names of half a dozen musicians whose professional titles had been prominent in the newspapers for a few months previous, and whose merits had formed a part of the current chit-chat of the day Some he had heard, and others he had not, but he could talk volubly of all, and he asked Miss Romeyn for her opinion of one and another in a manner which inorance in regard to such persons was not to be expected

Her face colored with annoyance, but she said quietly and a trifle coldly that she had not heard the people, but she now ca also it would be well to disturb Haldane's sense of superiority so the celebrated artists that Mr Haldane has mentioned, we must content ourselves with simple home music Won't you play for us that last selection of which you wrote to me?"

"I hardly dare, auntie, since Mr Haldane is such a critical judge, and has heard so much music from those who make it a business to be perfect He must have listened to the selection you naood s Suppose he had not heard it? This would be aard, after his assumed acquaintance with such matters

"Even if Mr Haldane is familiar with it," Mrs Arnot replied, "Steibelt's Storm Rondo will bear repetition Besides, his criticism may be helpful, since he can tell you wherein you coht the twinkle in her aunt's eye, and went to the piano

The young ht in his own trap, for the music was utterly unfamiliar The rondo was no wonderful piece of intricacy, such as a professional ht choose On the contrary, it was si and well-taught girl But it was full of rich norance, could understand and appreciate, and yet, for aught that he kneas difficult in the extreme