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A teacher of the violin and other tales

Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1903. London and New York, Macmillan and co., 1888.

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36 pages read (scans 19 to 54)0 makers on this site cite it

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19 A TEACHER OF THE VIOLIN Read
20 but I was also to some extent subject to… Read
21 had a large family, and his cure was onl… Read
22 is possible that they regarded it as a w… Read
23 passed the first few years of my life. T… Read
24 of the swift winding river. This meadow… Read
25 of the wind through the green rushes on… Read
26 intelligent voice or meaning. But, as I… Read
27 a message from on high, but this was sti… Read
28 entirely to divest myself of the fear of… Read
29 through grass and the whisper within the… Read
30 associated certain thoughts with its mes… Read
31 They played a singular rapid music with… Read
32 I pondered over these words, and for a l… Read
33 a sufficient and adequate voice. This co… Read
34 times, on special occasions, an ornament… Read
35 almost to be borne. He passed through th… Read
36 view, but at the second or third, in the… Read
37 Finally, she insisted upon my staying wi… Read
38 his tutor. This tutor, an Italian, perfo… Read
39 violin vibrates with the according note… Read
40 through the medium of grass and reed and… Read
41 himself, or to allow any one else to pla… Read
42 ished instruments behind him, with some… Read
43 treated me as her own son. At the end of… Read
44 taste in costume and amusements was univ… Read
45 dressed completely in the French manner,… Read
46 cascades forced their way now through th… Read
47 ship, of carpentry-work and stonework an… Read
48 and traffickers and gay pleasure-seekers… Read
49 as though the passing scenes before me w… Read
50 when they do talk, is always worth liste… Read
51 most inclined, and what is the future to… Read
52 cathedral, the vast west window of which… Read
53 The old gentleman seemed rather disappoi… Read
54 patronymic.' Accordingly, some months af… Read