Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 115: what you’re looking at

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| “But you have to count,” observed Hazel, with an arch look, “Y-es,” and for an instant Belle seemed slightly disconcerted. “Do you ever find it ‘tedious’? pursued Hazel. “Oh, no; one can make such lovely things that one does not stop to think of the counting.” “And that is true, too, in music,” Hazel returned. “One can make such lovely melody if one plays in lime, that one does not mind the counting.” “T never thought of it in that way before,” Belle said, looking up with real interest. “It has always been ‘Belle, you must count your time—you will never make a player, Belle, if you don't keep time— child, what dreadful work you are making with that exercise,’ until the counting has grown to be such a bugbear I cannot think of anything else,” quoted the girl, with a droll mixture of mischief aud pathos, That is a great mistake,” Hazel said, quietly; then turning to the duchess, she asked: Aut there anything else you would like me to play? “Yes, please; here is alittle thing that I am very fond of,” and her grace placed an arrangement of “The Shepherd Boy,” before her, then went back to her seat near Mrs. Stewart. : “Take my advice,” she said, in a low tone, under cover of the musi¢, ‘and engage that girl—she will be just the companion that Belle needs; she has already given her alesson in musie that she will never forget.” comicbooks.com