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Copy You wanted to know the incident of The Music rooms: I encountered a friend and confessed that I enjoyed all the Whistlers at the Comparative Exhibition but felt I had not (then) quite grasped the Music Room. The friend - immediately replied: "Why I understand that more easily, more completely than any other picture of his." "Indeed!" said I, surprised. "Yes," said he, "The pathos was so great! 'Pathos!" I repeated, wondering. "Yes, don't you see," he went on, "there was the richly dressed lady just going out for a ride and the poor seamstress looking up at her from her sewing machine, with great longing on her face, and such a sad, sweet face it was, so full of yearning. Why I could have cried. She looked positively hungry." I felt that although I may not have quite grasped it, I was not quite so far afield as my perfectly convinced and satisfied friend. Annie Nathan Meyer. 112d