“Until five o’clock in the morning.”
EIGHTH.
Two days after there was a concert. The creole said in coming out that he was very tired, and had understood nothing of all that buzzing, and begged Paul to explain to him what pleasure people found in such noise.
“For,” said he, “they have enjoyed it, since they paid six francs for admission, and applauded vehemently.”
“Music awakes all sorts of agreeable reveries.”
“Let us see.”
“Such an air suggests scenes of love; such another makes you imagine great landscapes, tragic events.”
“And if you don’t have these reveries, the music bores you?”
“Certainly; unless you are professor of harmony.” "But the audience were not professors of harmony?”
“No indeed.”