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Mdlle. Lind's course of study, under Signor Garcia, lasted ten months, from the 26th or 27th of August, 1841, to the end of June, 1842-by which time she had learned all that it was possible for any master to teach her.
The result for which she had so ardently longed, so patiently waited, so perseveringly laboured, was attained at last. Her voice, no longer suffering from the effect of the cruel fatigue, and the inordinate amount of over-exertion which had so lately endangered, not merely its well-being, but its very existence, had now far more than recovered its pristine vigour-it had acquired a rich depth of tone, a sympathetic sweetness, a birdlike charm in the silvery clearness of its upper register, which at once impressed the listener with the feeling that he had never before heard anything in the least degree resembling it.