Memoirs of a New England Village Choir With Occasional Reflections
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I had a disaffected mother-in-law. My school master was partial to my rival. I 9* 102 THE VILLAGE CHOIR. Was bound an apprentice to an uncongenial employment, which I could not abandon un- til I was free. I was once jilted. How I was superseded in the choir, has been seen above. I always try to do my best, but am liable to overdo. I have been disinterested and generous to my friends, till I have spoil- ed them, and they have sometimes become my foes from expecting more than I could or ought to ...perform. The same out-of-the- way note, I acknowledge, attaches itself to most of my compositions. I have written some things in these very pages of a kin with that portentous strain of my instrument ; but I could not help it ; and I expect, that with some praises that may be vouchsafed to this production, other things will be said of it that will cut me to the very heart. But I will try to be prepared for them. And now, reader, you may in some meas- ure understand how I could endure to haunt, like a ghost, the scene of my former triumphs.
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