excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 131 (83 words)
excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 131 (83 words)
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I had set up house — or rather, rooms in somebody else's house [in Bucharest] — in a modest kind of way, and engaged a native cook who, being a gipsy as well as a Moldavian, was musical to the core. Meticka (the Roumanian diminutive for Demetrius) could play the fiddle or ciombolán with excellent taste and spirit, and sing right tunefully with a soft light tenor voice that would have made the fortune of a French or German hero of operetta. |
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