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Paris in 1825. "Play me something," said the pale, sarcastic genius of twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead...
Meanwhile, Irene?she of the lips, the eyes?glitters in her uncounted jewels, and wiser men than Masterson perceive that the glitter is not all seraphic. Among them is the stockbroker, Masterson's friend, who used to kiss Irene in her maidenhood, a triviality which she has decided to conceal from Masterson. She regrets, however, lightly, the possibility that he might kiss her again...
...Around her in a semi-circle the men of Charmington stood while Cartrack preached, not in the saintly tones of Isaiah Poodle but in the stately rhythms of a purient pekinese. She told them of pleasures they had never known, would never know, of the palaces and sanquti the glitter and garnish of decent diminution, and they hung about her and listened until the moon was high above Charmington and the lights in the passing ten o'clock express made a serpentine suggestion of reality in the passing below the cemetery. And then, refreshed, they went home to dream...
...Amsterdam there arrived Miss Pattie Field, 24, of Denver-and her mother-and many trunks. Titled Amsterdamers, the local consular corps, a scurrying squad of pressmen, welcomed her, found her good to look upon, looked. Miss Field looked back, with both a twinkle and a glitter in her bold dark...
...masculine audience or by the fact that they are wearing new hats. But if the badinage across a tea-table were carried on in black and white; if ivory tablets were provided for the composition of mots in pencil, would the written small-talk charm? Would it scintillate and glitter? No, thought the editors of the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). To test the well-known fact that a woman's wit is quenched by the sight of a sheet of paper like a candle by a wet snuffer, they last week invited the girls of Radcliffe College to contribute...