Chapter VIII: Act III: Dance of Court

Minuet--Boccherini (“Celebrated Minuet.”)

(Victor Record 64,614. Fritz Kreisler.)

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been silently corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed and some silently added when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Some stage directions have been reformatted to improve consistency.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings and inconsistent spellings have been retained.

Page 16: replaced “turning his moustach” with “turning his
moustache”.

Page 25: replaced “it musn’t spoil” with “it mustn’t spoil”.

Page 26: replaced “ACT II.” with “ACT II. SCENE 1.”.

Second illustration: replaced “LETS LOOK AHEAD” with “LET’S LOOK
AHEAD”.

Page 48: replaced “the Princess’s Attendant” with “the Princess’
Attendant”.

Page 50: replaced “if your hungry” with “if you’re hungry”.

Page 50: replaced “it to attendant” with “it to Gentleman”.

Page 52: replaced two instances of “ATTENDANT” with “GENTLEMAN”.

Page 56: replaced “flys in dreams” with “flies in dreams”.

Page 65-66: replaced all variants of “Minuett” or “Minuette” with
“Minuet”.

Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_.

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