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"Good news, pet," said Cecil, dancing into the room one afternoon. "Moscheles, whom I meet sometimes, you know, at Hester Mason's, has looked over my opera, and likes it very much; he has even proposed that we should have a sort of private rehearsal of it at his house next week, and has undertaken to secure the singers, and Bunn is to be there to hear it. " "That is good news, indeed. " "Yes, we shall be rich now. It has given me fresh courage: I feel I can finish _Nero_. "
"Mama has been here to-day with Rose, and has brought us thirty pounds. She is very ill -- very ill indeed, and the physicians don't know what is the matter. Rose and Violet are already busy with the baby linen, and Rose insists upon being godmother."