To add insult to injury, he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff, only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead.
To further a loss with mockery, he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff, only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead.