level. No one can deny other effective aspects of good music; for entertainment, for uplifting 1 Esko Jalkanen. Varjud peeglis (Shadows in the Mirror). Maalehe Raamat, Tallinn 1998, pp.11-14, 55, 71. 2 Sivanda Literature. Volume I. Ed. By Swami Omkarananda. Divine Life Society, Sivananda Nagar, India 1960, p.238. 3 In the same Volume I, pp.235, 244 one’s spirits and cheerfulness. But even an ordinary man delighting in worldly joys should take these thoughts into consideration. Do we know the essence of a composition? We suppose it. Do we know ourselves? As a general rule, we do not. How can we then, not knowing ourselves, assert anything firmly about an invisible and untouchable phenomenon? The estimation of value takes shape in comparison with the best that has been offered in Estonian music, yet clearly the quality becomes obvious in comparison with the very best ever created
of Darcy's father, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring. Mrs. Gardiner had seen Pemberley, and known the late Mr. Darcy by character perfectly well. Here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse. In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delighting both him and herself. On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy. Chapter 26 Mrs. Gardiner's caution to Elizabeth was punctually and kindly given on the first