Volume I Part 25 (1/2)

”Richer generally than most folks, but not all either”

”Oh, sir! I did not mean money” But as I looked at him, I felt he would not, could not, understand what I e

”Does he live in a cellar, sir, or in a very old house?”

”In an old house, certainly But you won't like him, Auchester,--at least not at first; only he ork you rightly, and take care of youryou up when you are at ho you to walk out every day”

”Don't they all send the boys out to walk in Ger locked up?”

”In the dark, sir, do you mean?”

”No, boy; to practise in a little cave of your own”

”What _does_ reat treasures are hidden there for such as like the bore of grubbing them up You have no idea, by the way, howat all inBut it cannot be worse than what people go through to get to heaven”

”If that is your notion, you are all right I have taken soentleman is a whimsical one, and takes very few pupils now”

”Did you know hiht ht myself, and that was preciously little But that was before he ca about this place Your favorite learned of hi afterwards”

”Who, sir,--the same?”

”The conductor”

”Oh, sir!” It was a dreadful thing to feel I had, as it were, got hold of hiain; but Santonio's manner was such that I did not think he could mean the same person

”Are you sure it is the saain, whileat the smoke

”Sure? Of course I am sure I know every conductor in Europe”

”I daresay you do, sir; but this is not a common conductor”

”No conductors are coenius too, and will do a great deal; but he is too young at present to be talked of without caution”

”Why, sir?”

”Because we nant, I was sick, but so impotent I could only say, ”Sir, has he ever heard _you_ play?”

”I cannot tell really all the people who hear me play I don't knoho they are in public”

”Have you ever heard _him_ play?”