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Putting, pound, potassium, pot, porter; initial p, mediant t—that was his idea, poor little boy!

The exposition ends with some dreamy, pianissimo reminiscences of the closing theme in the mediant keys of F, D and B major, delicately scored for the wood-wind instruments and horns.

“Ah, you are mediant, incorrigible,” said the lady, in broken English, laughing as she spoke.

The Hindoos have also terms in their language for the tonic, mediant and dominant, so that they know something of harmony, of which the Malays seem quite ignorant.

But a mediant view is found in Kulhwych, where it is said of him that he restrains the demons of hell lest they should destroy the people of this world.