Jack Vettriano Painting

Jack Vettriano Painting
The Singing Butler
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¡¡¡¡Beth blushed like a rose under the friendly look he wore; but she was not frightened now, and gave the big hand a grateful squeeze, because she had no words to thank him for the precious gift he had given her. The old gentleman softly stroked the hair of her forehead, and stooping down, he kissed her, saying, in a tone few people ever heard: ¡¡¡¡`I had a little girl once, with eyes like these. God bless you, my dear! Good day, madam'; and away he went, in a great hurry. ¡¡¡¡Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the
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girls were not at home. How blithely she sang that evening, and how they all laughed at her, because she woke Amy in the night by playing the piano on her face in her sleep. Next day, having seen both the old and the young gentlemen out of the house, Beth, after two or three retreats, fairly got in at the side-door and made her way, as noiselessly as any mouse, to the drawing room where her idol stood. Quite by accident of course, some pretty, easy music lay on the piano; and, with trembling fingers, and frequent stops to listen and look about, Beth at last touched the great instrument, and straightaway