When at length the Earl began to suffer from the gout, his faithful family songster recorded that also in her amiable verse, and prayed that “the bad disease” _May you but brief unfrequent visits find To prove you patient, your Ardelia kind_. No one can read her sensitive verses, ...
If my thin smile didn't match his full-fledged grin, it was because I had prayed for a guitar or a piano. For the next two weeks, the accordion was stored in the hall closet. Then one evening Dad announced that I would start lessons the following week. In disbelief I shot my eyes ...