The Story of a Long Life a Memoir of Elizabeth S W Taylor Aunt Bet
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Cleod's time and Anne had all the ad- vantages of them. A German professor of music led her "through the mazes of the hidden soul of harmony" up to a more than fair rendering of the classical music of that day, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, — the hours of MATURITY. 57 practising the piano to secure this being often sweet- ened by Aunt Betsey's presence with her knitting at the child's side. Then came Madame Togno to open a French school, with all the accomplishments in- cluded. Anne was at once... enrolled among her pupils. And lastly, with a very select class of five or six com- panions, from Mr. Breedin she learned her "steps" and took her first lessons in dancing, — square dances and the reels only ! round dancing being looked upon as a foreign abomination. Indeed, in having Anne taught dancing at all Aunt Betsey went, I think, against the views and practices of most of her friends; but the recollection of her own dancing days as bringing much wholesome pleasure and no harm into her life prevailed over the very strict ideas then existing in regard to the giving up of all so-called worldly amuse- ments, and the little girl was given a chance to "shake her foot.
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