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Scan 47
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1888
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 35. See the scan on archive.org.
1most inclined, and what is the future to which your friends design you?'
3'I fear, sir,' I returned, 'that my future is very undefined. I am—as you say you are a professor of music—very fond of the violin; but I am a very poor performer, and I fear I shall never be a proficient.'
5'I profess music,' said the old gentleman, with his quaint smile, 'but do not teach it: I only talk about it. I will introduce you, however, to a great teacher of the violin, and, indeed, if you would like it, we can go to him now. This is about the time that we shall find him disengaged.'
7We went out together into the crowded market-place and turned to the left hand, up a street of marvellous height, narrowness, and steepness which led round the eastern end of the cathedral, and indeed nearly concealed it from sight. At the top of this street, on the side farthest from the
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