I said I did not.

Then he said: “Did you not hear me, two minutes ago, whistling ‘Eagles

were not so Swift’?”

I had not noticed his doing so, and it was so long since I had played

that chorus myself that I doubt whether I should have consciously

recognised it. That I did recognise it unconsciously is tolerably clear

from my having gone on with “In Sweetest Harmony,” which is the air that

follows it.

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