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ELL me your story from its very beginning, Des Grieux," said he, interrupting me; "and how you got to be acquainted with him."

"It was at a grand charity concert where he was playing; for though amateur performances are one of the many plagues of modern civilization, still, my mother being one of the lady patronesses, I felt it incumbent to be present."

"But he was not an amateur, was he?"

"Oh, no! Still at that time he was only just beginning to make a name."

"Well, go on."

"He had already sat down at the piano when I got to my stalle d'orchestre. The first thing