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made of double chants. He is peculiar in his 

 musical tastes, and after Beethoven's sonatas, which 

 satisfy him better than anything else in music, he 

 prefers a good double chant. I am certain that I 

 heard him one evening at his study piano trying to 



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make a part-song out of one of the sonatas, but in 

 all probability he failed to adapt it comfortably to 

 the words, which he had also composed, so he fell 

 back upon a few of his favourite double chants, and 

 fashioned quite a creditable madrigal out of them. 

 The air had been played by village concertinas 



