Feeling that she must be homesick, Mrs. Noah suggested that she try
the fine piano in the little music-room.
"Maybe you can't play, but you can drum 'Days of Absence,' as most
girls do," and opening the lid she bade Maddy "thump as long as she
liked."
Music was a delight to Maddy, who coveted nothing so much as a
knowledge of it, and sitting down upon the stool, she touched the
soft-toned instrument, ascertaining by her far several sweet chords,
and greatly astonishing Jessie, who wondered at her skill. Twice each
week a teacher came up from Devonshire to give lessons to Jessie, but
as yet she could only play one scale and a few simple bars. These she
attempted to teach to Maddy, who caught at them so quickly and
executed them so well that Jessie was delighted. Maddy ought to take
lessons, she said, and some time during the next day she took to Mrs.
Noah a letter which she had written to Guy. After going into ecstasies
over Maddy, saying she was the nicest kind of a girl, that she prayed
in the morning as well as at night, and looked so sweet in blue, she
asked if she couldn't take music lessons, too, advancing many reasons
why she should, one of which was that she could play now a great deal
better than herself.
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