that, in time, it would display marvellous results; but, in the
meantime, the most advanced pupils were only emitting single notes,
and the greater number stood, every morning, before their respective
mirrors, watching their mouths open and shut, fish-fashion, without
producing a sound. Miss Jensen--she preferred the English pronunciation
of the J--was a large, fleshy woman, with a curled fringe and prominent
eyes. Her future stage-presence was the object of general admiration;
it was whispered that she aimed at Isolde. Loud in voice and manner,
she was fond of proclaiming her views on all kinds of subjects,
from diaphragmatic respiration, through GHOSTS, which was being read
by a bold, advanced few, down to the continental methods of regulating
vice--to the intense embarrassment of those who sat next her at table.
Still another American lady, Miss Martin, was studying with Bendel,
the rival of Schwarz; and as she lived in the same quarter of the town
as Dove and Maurice, the three of them often walked home together. For
the most part, Miss Martin was in a state of tragic despair. With the
frankness of her race, she admitted that she had arrived in Leipzig,
expecting to astonish. In this she had been disappointed; Bendel had
treated her like any other of his pupils; she was still playing Haydn
and Czerny, and saw endless vistas of similar composers "back of
these." Dove laid the whole blame on Bendel's method--which he
denounced with eloquence--and strongly advocated her becoming a pupil
of Schwarz. He himself undertook to arrange matters, and, in what
seemed an incredibly short time, the change was effected. For a
little, things went better; Schwarz was reported to have said that she
had talent, great talent, and that he would make something of her; but
soon, she was complaining anew: if there were any difference between
Czerny and Bertini, Haydn and Dussek, some one might "slick up "and
tell her what it was. Off the subject of her own gifts, she was a
lively, affable girl, with china-blue eyes, pale flaxen hair, and