Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


She took hold of the piano, with the first two ringing bars,
masterfully, like a man; she seemed to lift it, and its sounding
wires, with her two hands, with the strength and certitude of
maleness. And then, as only he had heard men do it, she sank, or
leaped--he could scarcely say which--to the sureness and pureness and
ineffable softness of the _Andante_ following.


She played on, with the calm and power of anything but the little,
almost girlish woman he glimpsed through half-closed lids across the
ebony board of the enormous piano, which she commanded, as she
commanded herself, as she commanded the composer. Her touch was
definite, authoritative, was his judgment, as the Prelude faded away
in dying chords hauntingly reminiscent of its full vigor that seemed
still to linger in the air.

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