"You will establish a dangerous precedent."
"Those are my irrevocable terms."
All were granted.
From his youth up Delsarte manifested this, perhaps excessive, contempt for money. On one occasion it was quite justifiable. Father Bambini had taken him to a party where he was to sing on very advantageous terms. The scholar was treated with deference; but the teacher who had neither a fine face nor the claims of youth to shield him against aristocratic prejudice, was received much as a servant would have been who had made a mistake in the door.
The young singer felt the blood mantle his brow, and his heart rebelled.
"Take your hat and let us go!" he said to his old master.
"But why?" replied the good man. He had heeded nothing but his pupil's success.
Delsarte dragged him away in spite of his protests, and lost by his abrupt departure the profits of the evening.
Chapter XI.
Delsarte's Family.
Delsarte married, in 1833, Miss Rosina Andrien. The young husband felt a high esteem for his father-in-law (primo basso cantante at the Opera); but we must not suppose that this consideration influenced his choice. He made a love marriage such as one makes at the age of twenty-two, with such a nature as his. Moreover, reason was never in closer accord with love.