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Christopher was a fiddler and a man of genius. Educated people do not deny the possibility of such a combination; but it was Christopher’s misfortune to live amongst a dull and bovine-seeming race, who had little sympathy with art and no knowledge of an artist’s longings. They...
Christopher wrote the incidental music for the new comedy and composed an overture and entr’actes for it--work for which he was paid pretty liberally. He wrote to Barbara of his...
1. Chapter 1Christopher was a fiddler and a man of genius. Educated people do not deny the possibility of such a combination; but it was Christopher’s misfortune to live amongst a dull and...
2. Chapter 2We who live in London know well enough that its streets are not paved with gold. If one had asked Christopher his opinion on that point, he would no doubt have laughed at the ch...