Don't be angry with me for my suggestion, ladies: _you do not make enough use of the minutes_.

While our learned education absorbs so much time, while our friends require so many hours, while, alas! balls and dinners consume whole days, we must be sparing of the remaining minutes.
"Now I must rush to the piano! I must go to dinner in ten minutes: two scales, two finger exercises, two difficult passages out of the piece I have to learn, and one exercise to invent on the dominant and sub-dominant, are soon done; and then the dinner will taste all the better." "My dear Agnes, we might talk for ever about this dreadful snow, it won't melt the sooner for it: how do you like this passage that I am going to play to you?
It is from a charming Nocturne, by Chopin, and is so difficult that I shall have to play it over fifty times, or else I shall always stumble at this place, and I never shall know the Nocturne to play to any one.

Don't you think it is beautiful ?--so spiritual and original! I can tell you it will be something to boast of, when I have accomplished that.

You like it better the oftener I play it?
So do I." "We have an invitation out.

Mother has a great deal to arrange, and directions to give.