Wagner was going into his room
without paying any attention to me, when the maid said to him in a
beseeching voice: 'Ah, Herr Wagner, it is a young musician who
wishes to speak to you; he has been waiting for you a long time.'
"He then came out of his room, looked at me, and said: 'I have seen
you before, I think. You are....'
"Probably he wanted to say, 'You are a fool.'
"He went in front of me and opened the door of the reception-room,
which was furnished in a truly royal style. In the middle of the
room was a couch covered in velvet and silk. Wagner himself was
wrapped in a long velvet mantle bordered with fur.
"When I was inside the room he asked me what I wanted."
Here Hugo Wolf, to excite the curiosity of his parents, broke off his
story and put "To be continued in my next." In his next letter he
continues:
"I said to him: 'Highly honoured master, for a long time I have
wanted to hear an opinion on my compositions, and it would be....'
"Here the master interrupted me and said: 'My dear child, I cannot
give you an opinion of your compositions; I have far too little
time; I can't even get my own letters written.
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