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Learn to keep your mouth open. We'll
go into that further next time.'' He was holding the
door open for her. As she passed out, she heard him
say:
``Ah, Mrs. Roswell. We'll go at that third song
first.''
The door closed. Reviewing all that had occurred,
Mildred decided that she must revise her opinion of
Jennings. A money-maker he no doubt was. And
why not? Did he not have to live? But a teacher also,
and a great teacher. Had he not destroyed her vanity
at one blow, demolished it?--yet without discouraging
her. And he went straight to the bottom of things--
very different from any of the teachers she used to have
when she was posing in drawing-rooms as a person with
a voice equal to the most difficult opera, if only she
weren't a lady and therefore not forced to be a professional
singing person. Yes, a great teacher--and in
deadly earnest. He would permit no trifling! How
she would have to work!
And she went to work with an energy she would not
have believed she possessed.


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