Excerpt: ...proprietor or the cafe, who came over to the four friends and shook hands with them. He had served them for many years, and he was glad to see them enjoy themselves. "How is the good lady of your house?" he asked. "Miss Husted is at the top of the notch," replied Pinac, who generally constituted himself spokesman for the party. "We are all top of the notch," he added, "eh, Poonsie?" slapping the young man on the back. "What a strange thing is this human existence!" thought Von Barwig, as he left his friends and ...
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Excerpt: ...proprietor or the cafe, who came over to the four friends and shook hands with them. He had served them for many years, and he was glad to see them enjoy themselves. "How is the good lady of your house?" he asked. "Miss Husted is at the top of the notch," replied Pinac, who generally constituted himself spokesman for the party. "We are all top of the notch," he added, "eh, Poonsie?" slapping the young man on the back. "What a strange thing is this human existence!" thought Von Barwig, as he left his friends and walked back to his studio alone. "Here I am in the middle of Houston Street, giving music instructions for fifty cents per lesson, playing out nights in a dime museum, and yet my heart, my mind is with this daughter of a great millionaire. To-day at three I shall be with her, and I can think of nothing else. What is she to me that I should care so much? A chance likeness, perhaps no likeness at all except that which exists in my brain! Am I mad? Is this world of shadows real? What does it all mean? Who will tear the veil from this mystery, and tell me why one human being is so much more to us than another, why one human being so resembles another, and yet is not that one?" From time to time he looked at the clock wishing the time would pass more quickly. He brushed his clothes very carefully that morning. The frock coat he had worn for a dozen years now proved its claim to being made of the finest texture, for it responded splendidly to the brush, and gave up most of its spots; but it still retained its shine. When he had put on a clean collar and cuffs and his best white dress shirt, Von Barwig looked at himself in the glass. "If only this shine on my coat were transferred to my boots, what a happy transformation!" thought Von Barwig. "Still, if that button on my sleeve is transferred to my coat, it will restore the balance of harmony," so Jenny's services were called into requisition. "Where are you going this morning?" she asked as she...
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Add this copy of The Music Master to cart. $5.00, good condition, Sold by Pepper's Old Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hanson, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909.
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John Rae. Very Good. No Jacket. Book Octavo., hardcover, pictorial paste-on of violin on front board. No dj. Light rub to paste-down else VG. Previous owner's name on endpaper dated 1911. 341 pp. and list of publisher's books. Novelized from the play as produced by David Belasco that starred Lois Moran and Alec F. Francis. Glossy, color frontispiece of girl playing piano, man looking at broken doll.
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john rae. Good. No dust jacket. hardcover condition fair spin cloth has some wear signed by previous owner. 341 p. hardcover condition fair spin cloth has some wear signed by previous owner
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Very Good+ No Jacket. 12900 shelf. Age-speckles text block edges. Novelized from the play as produced by David Belasco. Tight, solid, clean text. John Rae artwork. vg+, no dj, violin on full front paste-on, pale green cloth 341 pgs.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Hardback 1909 Hardcover Book in Good Condition w/o Jacket. Illustrations by John Rae-full color frontis and two full page, full color illustrations. Green cloth with black titles on spine, Tipped on color plate to front cover, which is lightly scratched, and irregular small piece missing from inner edge. Extremities lightly scuffed. Sewn binding is tight and solid. Spine cloth is darkened; rear side is soiled. Prev owner writing on endpaper. Pages mostly quite clean and unmarked, heavily toned; pp122-125 and 305 have smudge marks. This was a three-act drama-comedy play that had 288 performances at the opening theatre in 1904 in New York, then 306 at the next, then went on a 2 decade tour--a very popular play, dramatized in this book. 341 pages. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1909.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good copy with some light general wear. pictorial cover with scuffed area in upper right hand corner. pages clean and unmarked. 341 pages.
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