Page:Selected letters of Mendelssohn 1894.djvu/143

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them, when a passage is really made better, its effect, both by itself and on the rest of the piece, is, indeed, vastly different. You see I am vastly contented with the "widow," the passage I completed to-day; therefore, I think one dare not rest satisfied, and conscience, too, gives me a hint now and then to the same effect.