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Show A Touch of Nature. There is a beautiful little incident of Jenny Line! and Grisi when they were rivals for popular favor in London. It is told as follows: Both were invited to sing the same night at a court concert before the Queen. Jenny Lind, being the younger, sang first, and waa so disturbed by the fierce, scornful look of Grisi that she was at the point of failure, when, suddenly, sud-denly, an inspiration came to her. The ' accompanist was striking- his, final She ask him to rise, and I Vaant Her Rers wandered over the keys in a loving prelude pre-lude and then she sang a little prayer which she had loved as a child She roya l vabn?J0neer in the Phce of herafaJtherlandnSinS: t0 l0V friends in floafed'onh firSt the P,aj'ntive notes richer eveVl? a""' swellinS 'ouder and ricner every moment. The sinnrer ferned to throw her whole lout 'miye.r"eir'- tllUns' Plaintive ' Grad"ally the song died cilence!" in 3 SOb' Th was der h:9 S"S-re f adring won-aer. won-aer. ihe audience sat spellbound Jenny Lind lifted her sweet eve" to look into the scornful face that had so disconcerted her. There was no ferce SeS!Ln nW; instea a ?eardroP glistened on the long, black lasher, and after a moment, with the impulsiveness impulsive-ness of a child of the tropicj 3rM crossed to Jenny Lind's side, 'placS her arm about her and kissed her utterly ut-terly regardless of the audience. |