In the text it says, "She taught me my scales and exercises, too, on the little parlor organ", "I struggled with the 'Harmonious Blacksmith'", and "<span>I had been doggedly beating out some easy passages from an old score of 'Euryanthe'". The boy mostly practiced scales and exercises, but he also played "Harmonius Blacksmith" and "Euryanthe".</span>
<span>"Many a singer far better than this absurd fop had been driven amid execration and abuse from the platform." Is the sentence that really shows mockery the best. While the author was praising him for what he was doing in the beginning it ends with such a mocking tone it changes the way you look at the rest of the reading.</span>
