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Beauchamp’s Career

CHAPTER XII
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See him there! My Jenny will spin a thread from us to him over the millions of miles, with one touch of the chords, as quick as he shoots a beam on us.

Ay! on her wretched tinkler called a piano, which tries at the whole orchestra and murders every instrument in the attempt.

But it's convenient, like our modern civilization--a taming and a diminishing of individuals for an insipid harmony!' 'You surely do not object to the organ ?--I fear I cannot wait, though,' said Rosamund.
Miss Denham entreated her.

'Oh! do, madam.

Not to hear me--I am not so perfect a player that I should wish it--but to see him.


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