particularise her course of study, nor, indeed, possible; for,
between ourselves, none of the male Fitz-Boodles ever could sing a
note, and the jargon of scales and solfeggios is quite unknown to
me. But as no man can have seen persons addicted to music without
remarking the prodigious energies they display in the pursuit, as
there is no father of daughters, however ignorant, but is aware of
the piano-rattling and voice-exercising which go on in his house
from morning till night, so let all fancy, without further inquiry,
how the heroine of our story was at this stage of her existence
occupied.

Walker was delighted with her progress, and did everything but pay
Baroski, her instructor. We know why he didn't pay. It was his
nature not to pay bills, except on extreme compulsion; but why did
not Baroski employ that extreme compulsion? Because, if he had
received his money, he would have lost his pupil, and because he
loved his pupil more than money. Rather than lose her, he would
have given her a guinea as well as her cachet. He would sometimes
disappoint a great personage, but he never missed his attendance on
HER; and the truth must out, that he was in love with her, as
Woolsey and Eglantine had been before.

"By the immortel Chofe!" he would say, "dat letell ding sents me mad
vid her big ice! But only vait avile: in six veeks I can bring any
voman in England on her knees to me and you shall see vat I vill do
vid my Morgiana." He attended her for six weeks punctually, and yet
Morgiana was never brought down on her knees; he exhausted his best
stock of "gomblimends," and she never seemed disposed to receive
them with anything but laughter. And, as a matter of course, he
only grew more infatuated with the lovely creature who was so