[ As Mr. Cartwright settles in with his medicine, Mary attempts to pour her father's tea, but every grunt and grimace their guest gives causes her to pause and quickly check on him with a worried glance. Logically, she knows it's absurd to watch him so as she has no power to diagnose nor heal him, but the strange feelings she's been having lately regarding him are making her act in a manner wholly new to her.
Thankfully, she does eventually make up her father's tea and sets it on the small side table beside him. Mr. Bennet rustles the pages and makes a slight "Mm," sound of acknowledgment for her trouble before returning to the article he's reading. Now she starts her own cup but pauses as he inquires after her music. Mary is used to no one questioning her about it, so she hadn't thought to give him a more detailed answer. She turns away from the tea tray a little to properly address him even as her hand stirs in a small amount of honey into her tea. ]
It is Beethoven's Les Adieux, sir. Or as he is reported to prefer it: Lebewohl.
[ Her German pronunciation is not very good, but they're at war with France, so she understands the composer's feelings. ]
It is providing me with quite the challenge, but I believe I can properly execute the piece.
[ She won't, however, be properly able to execute the emotions the sonata requires. As she has already discovered, she plays without feeling and always tries to play technically instead. Her stubbornness will cause her to stay on the piece longer than she should, but she always convinces herself that she's played well enough and will eventually move on to another piece that is too difficult to her that she will play poorly. And so the cycle begins again. ]
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Thankfully, she does eventually make up her father's tea and sets it on the small side table beside him. Mr. Bennet rustles the pages and makes a slight "Mm," sound of acknowledgment for her trouble before returning to the article he's reading. Now she starts her own cup but pauses as he inquires after her music. Mary is used to no one questioning her about it, so she hadn't thought to give him a more detailed answer. She turns away from the tea tray a little to properly address him even as her hand stirs in a small amount of honey into her tea. ]
It is Beethoven's Les Adieux, sir. Or as he is reported to prefer it: Lebewohl.
[ Her German pronunciation is not very good, but they're at war with France, so she understands the composer's feelings. ]
It is providing me with quite the challenge, but I believe I can properly execute the piece.
[ She won't, however, be properly able to execute the emotions the sonata requires. As she has already discovered, she plays without feeling and always tries to play technically instead. Her stubbornness will cause her to stay on the piece longer than she should, but she always convinces herself that she's played well enough and will eventually move on to another piece that is too difficult to her that she will play poorly. And so the cycle begins again. ]