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Show THE REPARTEE OF BERLIOZ. j Hector Berlioz was very quick at repartee While in Vienna Prince Metternich said to him, "Is it not you who compose music for five hundred hun-dred musicians?" "Not always, monBeigneur," replied re-plied Berlioz, "I sometimes write for four hundred hun-dred and fifty." After one of his concerts au admirer rushed ip to him and seized his left hand, exclaiming, "I beg permission to grasp the hand that wrote the symphony of Romeo. You understand Shakespeare!" "Certainly," answered the musician, "but you are mistaken in the hand, I always write with this one." One evening while in company the conversation turned upon the discontent felt by every one for his condition. A clerk of the ministry who was present was not at all dissatisfied with his. "I would rather be what I am," he remarked, "than anything else." "For my part," remarked Berlioz, "I am not like you. I would rather be anything than what you are." Town Talk. First Philadelphian How is that hook? Exciting? Ex-citing? Second Philadelphian Why, I sat up all day reading it! Town Topics. |