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The clause in the Lumley contract which prevented Mdlle. Lind from taking part in any public concerts, during the London season, proved to be a very fortunate one; and the effect of Mendelssohn's remonstrance, and the explanation which followed, gave unalloyed satisfaction, in the end, to all concerned.
To have added to the fatigue and excitement of the Opera season, even by an occasional concert, would have been in the highest degree imprudent, had an occasional concert been possible. But it was not. In the then excited state of public feeling, a share in the programme of one single concert would have raised a clamour for concerts everywhere; for engagements of one kind or another for every day in the week; demands which it would have been impossible to meet, and the refusal of which would have led to infinite dissatisfaction and annoyance.