Madame Fairfax and Sophie Fairfax

Adele began chattering fluently. You speak my language as well as mister rochester does, i told her. She will be glad nobody here understands her. I lived long ago with mamma, but she is gone to te holy virgin. Mamma used to teach me to dance and sing and to say verses. A great many gentlemen and ladies came to see mamma... Shall i let you hear me sing? Adele sang the canzonette tunefully enough,. With the naivete of her age, this achieved - at least i thought so. The subject seemed strangely chosen for an infant singer. But i suppose the point of the exhibition lay in hearing the notes

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