It was very pleasant, but my deficiency of ear was never more apparent to myself.

We had exercises in the ascending scale, and I practised after I came home, with the family as audience.

H.says my ear is competent only to vulgar hearing, and I cannot appreciate nice distinctions....

I am sure that I shall never say that if I had been properly educated I should have made a singer, a dancer, or a painter--I should have failed less, perhaps, in the last.

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