It was all so entirely novel, so unlike any music most of us had ever heard, and it was so undeniably good, that every one applauded and said something to the singer in turn, expressing the greatest admiration and appreciation.

Miss Westonhaugh was the last to speak.
"It is perfectly lovely," she said.

"I wish I could understand the words--are they as sweet as the music ?" "Sweeter," he answered, and he gave an offhand translation of two or three verses.
"Beautiful indeed," she said; "and now sing me another, please." There was no resisting such an appeal, with the personal pronoun in the singular number.

He moved a little nearer, and emphatically sang to her, and to no one else.

A song of the same character as the first, but, I thought, more passionate and less dreamy, as his great sweet voice swelled and softened and rose again in burning vibrations and waves of sound.