Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"She can do anything she wants to do. And she doesn't work . . . much.
She studied under Leschetizky and Madame Carreno, you know, and she
abides by their methods. She doesn't play like a woman, either. Listen
to that!"

Graham knew that he expected disappointment from her confident hands,
even as she rippled them over the keys in little chords and runs with
which he could not quarrel but which he had heard too often before
from technically brilliant but musically mediocre performers. But
whatever he might have fancied she would play, he was all unprepared
for Rachmaninoff's sheerly masculine Prelude, which he had heard only
men play when decently played.