Crossword-Solution: NARDA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

And as I went I heard a sweet and thrilling voice singing, "Home, home, sweet, sweet home, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home." The words naturally appealed to me, and I exclaimed: "How lovely! Who is singing?" only to be told that it was Mamselle Narda, the music mistress.

Narda's path had been strewn with roses, until a bank failure interrupted a life of happiness, and then sorrows had come in battalions.

Mamselle had really turned her silver notes into silver coins for the sake of "Home, Sweet Home." This love of home it was which united Narda and myself.

There had been the first fall of the snow, and "ye Antiente Citie" looked like some town in dreamland, or in fairyland, as Miss Melford's boarders (myself amongst the number) went through its streets and wynds to the ballad concert (in aid of Crumblebolme's Charity), at which Mamselle, then La Narda, the _cantatrice_, was announced to sing.

Just think I----" What more Milly would have said I really cannot say, for just then there was a soft clapping of hands, and La Narda came down the crimson steps of the Justice Room, and advanced to the footlights.