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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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22 intelligent voice or meaning. But, as I… Read
23 a message from on high, but this was sti… Read
24 entirely to divest myself of the fear of… Read
25 13 through grass and the whisper within the… Read
26 14 associated certain thoughts with its mes… Read
27 15 They played a singular rapid music with… Read
28 16 I pondered over these words, and for a l… Read
29 17 a sufficient and adequate voice. This co… Read
30 18 times, on special occasions, an ornament… Read
32 20 view, but at the second or third, in the… Read
33 21 Finally, she insisted upon my staying wi… Read
34 22 his tutor. This tutor, an Italian, perfo… Read
35 23 violin vibrates with the according note… Read
36 24 through the medium of grass and reed and… Read
37 25 himself, or to allow any one else to pla… Read
38 26 ished instruments behind him, with some… Read
39 27 treated me as her own son. At the end of… Read
45 33 as though the passing scenes before me w… Read
46 34 when they do talk, is always worth liste… Read
47 35 most inclined, and what is the future to… Read
48 36 cathedral, the vast west window of which… Read
49 37 The old gentleman seemed rather disappoi… Read
50 38 patronymic.' Accordingly, some months af… Read
51 39 distant blue mountains and forests of th… Read
52 40 dazed and even melancholy expression, hi… Read
53 41 across the strings himself and played so… Read
54 42 not, but somewhere down there,—is a hear… Read
55 43 his heart vibrates in such notes: his li… Read
56 44 do you not feel that for the race itself… Read
57 45 They are not devils. Herr von Saale,' he… Read
58 46 frame, even to the finger-tips, with the… Read
59 47 Veitch to-morrow, when perhaps you will… Read
60 48 fingering, the most instinctive aptitude… Read
61 49 and imposing domestic in the royal liver… Read
62 50 violin, and your father seemed much take… Read
63 51 a concerted piece. The beauty of the pla… Read
64 52 solemn poplars with the weird and awful… Read
72 in the forest, and with the calm sympath… Read
73 small scale, after the fashion of the Fr… Read
74 were very lively and quick; but the grea… Read
75 65 assumed an expression of embarrassment,… Read
76 66 The Professor came to the rescue with gr… Read
77 67 my excitement I had the sense to take th… Read
78 68 the earth with toil and sorrow and grime… Read
81 71 Immediately in front, over a terrace or… Read
82 72 forest-land. The white smoke-wreaths fro… Read
83 73 of touch, most surprising as he is only… Read
84 74 eyes softened to an expression which was… Read
90 80 Fräulein says, is expression. His playin… Read
91 81 wand announced, after the manner of the… Read
92 82 was followed by several ladies, and thre… Read
93 83 came a trio of Corelli's, in which the h… Read
94 84 seemed to call her with a resistless pow… Read
99 89 Herr Veitch did not even appear to have… Read
100 90 came a change, which was entirely of my… Read
101 91 has fascinated you. You are no longer th… Read
102 92 relate one incident, so fatuous and unwo… Read
103 93 more scornful than ever; and I conceived… Read
104 94 report of the betrothal being spread thr… Read
105 95 orchestra. When I entered the curtain ha… Read
106 96 another direction, and a young distingui… Read
107 97 confidence and desire to pit myself agai… Read
117 107 pletely exorcised, as though the courage… Read
118 108 I stopped suddenly, remembering that the… Read
119 109 soul. There was no sound but that of the… Read
120 110 At last he comes for whom it was predest… Read
121 111 peace for the wearied and troubled brain… Read
122 112 and the blinds and jalousies drawn down… Read
123 113 met together, or in the homes where they… Read