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Jarvis who had been travelling upwards. But
when a new footman, engaged by Lord Ingleby with no reference to his
musical gifts, chanced to possess a fine throaty tenor, Myra felt
she really had material with which great things might be
accomplished, and decided herself to learn the Tonic sol-fa system.
She easily mastered mi, re, do, and so, fa, fa, mi, because these
represented the opening lines of Three Blind Mice, always a musical
landmark to Myra. But when it came to the fugue-like intricacies in
the theme of "They all ran after the farmer's wife," Lady Ingleby
was lost without the words to cling to, and gave up the Tonic sol-fa
system in despair.
So the name of the greatest teacher of singing of this age did not
convey much to Myra's mind. But Garth Dalmain sat up.
"I say! No wonder you take it coolly. Why, Velma herself was a pupil
of the great madame."
"That is how it happens that I know her rather well," said Jane. "I
am here to-day because I was to have played her accompaniment.


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