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Priscilla and charybdis: A Story of Alternatives
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ISBN10: 153761911X
ISBN13: 9781537619118
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 12 2016
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781537619118
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 12 2016
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt from Priscilla and Charybdis: A Story of Alternatives
What Morley Quorn could not understand was why people made such a fuss over that fellow Kelton. Who was Kelton anyway that he should give himself airs, he enquired with some insistence of the five bassi - they were labelled bassi in the programme - who were lounging about the door of the schoolroom where the rehearsal for the concert was being held.
What Morley Quorn could not understand was why people made such a fuss over that fellow Kelton. Who was Kelton anyway that he should give himself airs, he enquired with some insistence of the five bassi - they were labelled bassi in the programme - who were lounging about the door of the schoolroom where the rehearsal for the concert was being held.
He does give himself airs, doesn't he? growled another of the same division of the chorus.
The rest shook their heads gloomily. It was denied to them to express themselves adequately on this point, the fact being that the Reverend Edwin Tucknott, the curate of St. Joan of Arc, was standing hard by with his flute. The proximity of the clergyman checked complete freedom of speech, including language, among the young men, for they failed to recollect that in the due performance of that portion of his sacred office known as the Commination Service he went much further than the most highly qualified basso could go even when he found it necessary to describe the absurdities of another and more popular vocalist.
Mr. Tucknott smiled his olive branch smile in the direction of the bassi.
I suppose it is natural for a tenor to give himself airs, he remarked. The instant he had spoken he glanced around in rather a shaky way. He had a feeling that he had gone a little too far.
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The rest shook their heads gloomily. It was denied to them to express themselves adequately on this point, the fact being that the Reverend Edwin Tucknott, the curate of St. Joan of Arc, was standing hard by with his flute. The proximity of the clergyman checked complete freedom of speech, including language, among the young men, for they failed to recollect that in the due performance of that portion of his sacred office known as the Commination Service he went much further than the most highly qualified basso could go even when he found it necessary to describe the absurdities of another and more popular vocalist.
Mr. Tucknott smiled his olive branch smile in the direction of the bassi.
I suppose it is natural for a tenor to give himself airs, he remarked. The instant he had spoken he glanced around in rather a shaky way. He had a feeling that he had gone a little too far.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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