[Gutta-Percha Willie by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookGutta-Percha Willie CHAPTER VI 9/9
Few can.
Whoever reads aloud and does not read well, is a sort of deceiver; for he pretends to introduce one person to another, while he misrepresents him. In after life, Willie continued to pay a good deal of attention not merely to reading for its own sake, but to reading for the sake of other people, that is, to reading aloud.
As often as he came, in the course of his own reading, to any verse that he liked very much, he always read it aloud in order to teach himself how it ought to be read; doing his best--first, to make it sound true, that is, to read it according to the sense; next, to make it sound beautiful, that is, to read it according to the measure of the verse and the melody of the words. He now read a great deal to Hector.
There came to be a certain time every day at which Willie Macmichael was joyfully expected by the shoemaker--to read to him for an hour and a half--beyond which time his father did not wish the reading to extend..
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|