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In ordinary conversation the different voices speak in the key of B 

 flat, B, or C, persons with soprano or tenor voices moving in the upper 

 part of the scale, and the alto and hass voices holding to the lower 

 part of the same, and the replies turning often to the dominant or 

 subdominant : 





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How is your friend, to - day ? 



Is he quite well? 



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Yes, thank you, quite well ; and how are you ? Thank you, I am quite well. 



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Will you tell me when I could see your mas - ter? 



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Yeu can see him af - ter e - lev- en o' - clock. Not be - fore ? 



No ; have you been here be - fore ? Yes ; I have been here before. 



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Are you not as - ton - ished at these news? 



Yes, and I am de - light-ed. As for me, I am hor-ri - fied. 



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Where have you been in your sum - mer hoi - i - days? 



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I have gone a lit - tie in- to France, and then to Ger - ma - ny. 



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And where have you been ? 



I stayed qui - et - ly at home. 



