"You do not always cry when people sing ?" "Why, no," I said with great contempt.

"But I never heard any one sing like that before." "He does sing well," said Mrs.Hollenbeck, thoughtfully.
"Immense expression and a fine voice," added Charlotte Benson.
"He has been educated for the stage, you may be sure," said Mary Leighton, with a little spite.

"As Miss d'Estree says, I never heard anyone sing like that, out of the chorus of an opera." "Well, I think," returned Charlotte Benson, "if there were many voices like that in ordinary choruses, one would be glad to dispense with the solos and duets." "Oh, you would not find his voice so wonderful, if you heard it out of a parlor.

It is very well, but it would not fill a concert hall, much less an opera house.

No; you may be sure he has been educated for some of those German choruses; you know they are very fine musicians." "Well, I don't know that it is anything to us what he was educated for," said Charlotte Benson, sharply.