This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... nephew to the prophet Ezekiel, or the assertion that the moon was a highly burnished frying-pan. So he had never had any distrust or jealousy of Arthur, but had conceived a diluted liking for him, as a gentlemanly fellow, who talked well without being dogmatic, or satirical. Satire was Sir Herbert's pet aversion, as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... nephew to the prophet Ezekiel, or the assertion that the moon was a highly burnished frying-pan. So he had never had any distrust or jealousy of Arthur, but had conceived a diluted liking for him, as a gentlemanly fellow, who talked well without being dogmatic, or satirical. Satire was Sir Herbert's pet aversion, as he rarely understood it, and found it in consequence, not easy to successfully encounter. So he greeted Arthur with slightly emphatic politeness, which was his nearest approach to cordiality, and after a little general conversation they sat down to the game. "May I ask one great favour, Miss Atherton?" said Arthur. "What is it?" asked Maud. "That you will favour me--us I mean, with some of those ' songs without words, ' of Mendelssohn's I heard you playing the other night." "I am afraid I shall interrupt you," she replied, but Arthur declaring that he played much better when he was listening to music, and Sir Herbert remarking with rather less politeness than usual, that when his attention was absorbed in chess, he never noticed surroundings, Maud went quietly to the piano without further word. Arthur won the draw for choice of men and first move, and playing out first his king's pawn, and then his king's bishop's pawn, the game became the Muzio gambit, that most brilliant of attacks being his favourite opening. Sir Herbert's style of playing was characteristic; he played very cautiously, taking a long time to consider every move, and rejecting any tactics that involved uncertainty or danger. Arthur on the other hand played very rapidly, and with considerable brilliancy, but not always a really sound game. His thoughts were far less with knights and pawns, than with the sweet notes from the piano, now low ...
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