Then, with the two together, I go stirring and stirring about at the story, and the music keeps coming and coming; and when it stops, which it does sometimes all at once, then I go back to the book." "But you don't go on like that all day, do you ?" said Mary.
"I generally go on till I'm hungry, and then I go out for something to eat.

My landlady won't get me any dinner.

Then I come back and begin again." "Will you let me teach you to read music ?" said Mary, more and more delighted with him, and desirous of contributing to his growth--the one great service of the universe.
"If you would, miss, perhaps then I might be able to learn.

You see, I never was like other people.

Mother was the only one that didn't take me for an innocent.