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Show When Liszt Lived In a Flat. Wrapped in his dressing gown, and with feet incased in slippers, Franz Liszt was sitting comfortably one evening in his arm chair, ready for work and inviting invit-ing inspiration. On the floor above, in the apartments of a banker, a noisy musical soiree was in progress. Polonaises Polon-aises bad succeeded waltzes, and nocturnes noc-turnes had followed polonaises, when suddenly the door of the salon opened and Liszt eatered, still wrapped in his dressing gown. The astonishment of the company may be imagined. With slow steps Liszt walked toward the piano, and the young key ponnder who was sitting at it quickly left his place. Liszt sat down at the instrument, carelessly swept his fingers over the keys as if to prelude, and then suddenly he shut down the cover and put the key in his pocket And immediately, with tbe 6ame tranquil tran-quil air with which he bad entered, he went out and returned to his room, where he could work at his ease. San Francisco Argonaut |