3/15 I was quite willing to obey her, and I said so with all needful readiness and respect. She answered that she had already chosen a music-master for me--and then, to my astonishment, she mentioned his name. Mr.Le Frank, who taught her children, was also to teach me! I have plenty of faults, but I really think vanity is not one of them. It is only due to my excellent master in Italy to say, that I am a better pianoforte player than Mr.Le Frank. It would have been ungrateful and useless. |