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Voice and violin : sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1898
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1or evening engagement, either as second violin or contra-basso, in some concert hall or orchestra, and so kept his larder stocked for a few days.
3In this unenviable plight he had managed to get himself engaged to an English girl, the only child of Mrs. Blythe, widow of a courageous colonel who had died for his country in India. This lady enjoyed a small pension, but had no other means of subsistence. She was the daughter of a great singer, and had observed that her own daughter possessed a musical gift, which, she thought, the girl should make a source of livelihood. For this purpose she had engaged the services of Maboni, whom she knew to be a representative of the fine old Italian school. As a child she had studied the works of Palestrina, Handel, Sacchini, Paesiello, Porpora, and other men of genius, who have laid the foundation of all that is fine and noble in modern musical composition.
5It was Mrs. Blythe's intention to make her daughter a violinist. There were very few, if any, lady violinists in those days, and it must be admitted that Mary Blythe gave promise of becoming in a few years' time a very accomplished artist. She was a fair girl, nearly nineteen years of age, with clear blue eyes, an open, frank countenance, gay spirits, and lady-like manners. To say she was beautiful would be an exaggeration; but there was something so charming in her well-proportioned figure, her in-
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