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. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Marie, who obviously could not help thinking that it was a trifle unreasonable for Miss Egloff to have fallen in love with her distinguished brother. Since music was a necessity to Henle, a course of lessons in this branch was mapped out for Elise, but though she remained at the pianoforte with the assiduity ...
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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. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Marie, who obviously could not help thinking that it was a trifle unreasonable for Miss Egloff to have fallen in love with her distinguished brother. Since music was a necessity to Henle, a course of lessons in this branch was mapped out for Elise, but though she remained at the pianoforte with the assiduity of a child practising for a much-desired reward, she made little progress. There was rhythm in her walk and music in her smile, but she could not master bars and scales. Aside from this failure, the experiment was such a brilliant success that within a short time Elise Egloff was transformed into a lady of the world who moved becomingly, amid general approbation in circles bristling with cleverness and repartee, yet she made no breaks and she violated no commandment in the decalog of etiquette. A certain moralist laid it down as an axiom that all women should act as seamstresses for their own families, but Elise did not discuss the art of needlework. The impoverished poet who was invited to the home of a lady of wealth, and began the conversation by asking his hostess if she had noticed the different colors of pawn-tickets, had no counterpart in Elise Egloff. Her feverishly acquired education, added to her native sense and delicacy, served to pilot her through society's breakers, and though there were dangers which threatened at times to wreck her peace, high above the foam gleamed the beacon of her faith in Jacob Henle. Events now moved rapidly. In 1845, Henle asked his father's permission to marry, the betrothal was announced in the early months of 1846, and during the easter vacation Elise became Henle's wife. The honeymoon was spent in Vienna, where Henle was warmly greeted by the foremost medical men of the day, including Rokitansky, ...
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