To me that music was divine.

I had never heard anything so glorious.

The young Italian who furnished it would even get up and dance, his arms around his girl, playing the accordion behind her back.

All of which was very wonderful for me, who did not dance, but who sat at a table and gazed wide-eyed at the amazingness of life.

I was only a little lad, and there was so much of life for me to learn.