The Complete Works of Mark Twain. a Tramp Abroad 11
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Her stripling brought an armful of aged sheet -music from their room — for this bride went "heeled," as you might say — and bent himself lovingly over and got ready to turn the pages. The bride fetched a swoop with her fingers from one end of the keyboard to the other, just to get her bearings, as it were, and you could see the congre- gation set their teeth with the agony of it. Then, without any more preliminaries, she tinned on all 29 MARK TWAIN the horrors of the "Battle of Prague," that ve...ner- able shivaree, and waded chin-deep in the blood of the slain. She made a fair and honorable average of two false notes in every five, but her soul was in arms and she never stopped to correct. The audi- ence stood it with pretty fair grit for a while, but when the cannonade waxed hotter and fiercer, and the discord average rose to foiu* in five, the proces- sion began to move. A few stragglers held their ground ten minutes longer, but when the girl began to wring the true inwardness out of the ' * cries of the wounded," they struck their colors and retired in a kind of panic.
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