25/31 Captain Beauchamp may now be coming at any instant.' Mr.Lydiard added, 'I have an appointment with him here for this evening.' 'You build a cathedral of sound in the organ,' said Dr.Shrapnel, casting out a league of leg as he sat beside his only half-persuaded fretful guest. 'You subject the winds to serve you; that's a gain. You do actually accomplish a resonant imitation of the various instruments; they sing out as your two hands command them--trumpet, flute, dulcimer, hautboy, drum, storm, earthquake, ethereal quire; you have them at your option. But tell me of an organ in the open air? Say that an organ is a despotism, just as your piano is the Constitutional bourgeois. |