These were marks on which I made no comments at the time.

My own situation was calculated to breed confusion in my thoughts and awkwardness in my gestures.

Breakfast being finished, the lady, apparently at the request of Welbeck, sat down to a piano-forte.
Here again I must be silent.

I was not wholly destitute of musical practice and musical taste.

I had that degree of knowledge which enabled me to estimate the transcendent skill of this performer.