It is so beautiful; it is utterly beyond my power to do it justice.

Oh, what would I not give to go to the concert at Cologne!' 'Ah! my sister,' said a second voice; 'why create regrets when there is no remedy?
We can scarcely pay our rent.' 'You are right,' said the first speaker, 'and yet I wish for once in my life to hear some really good music.

But it is of no use.' "'Let us go in,' said Beethoven.

'Go in!' I remonstrated; 'what should we go in for ?' 'I will play to her,' replied my companion in an excited tone; 'here is feeling,--genius,--understanding! I will play to her, and she will understand it.

Pardon me,' he continued, as he opened the door and saw a young man sitting by a table, mending shoes, and a young girl leaning sorrowfully upon an old-fashioned piano; 'I heard music and was tempted to enter.