[The City of Delight by Elizabeth Miller]@TWC D-Link bookThe City of Delight CHAPTER X 7/24
"How little they know about art! How long has it been since he introduced one of the Temple singers into our lady's hall to show what a piercing high note could be reached by a male voice? And he had the creature sing to prove his contention.
I thought I should die! It was worse than awful; it was criminal!" The athlete laughed. "Any singer, then, but Juventius therefore is a malefactor!" he said. "No, it does not follow," Juventius protested in all seriousness, while the child flashed a look of intense amusement at the athlete. "But," waving a pair of long white hands, "none should trifle with music.
It is one of the graces of Nature, divine and elemental. Wherefore, anything short of a perfect production becometh a mockery and a mockery against divine things is blasphemy.
Ergo, the poor musician is in danger of Hades!" "The monster is safe, safe!" the girl protested.
"He does not sing, and from what I caught through the crack of the door, the pretty stranger had better not.
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