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Scan 84
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1888
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 74. See the scan on archive.org.
1eyes softened to an expression which was certainly that of supreme, amused beneficence—possibly of something else. 'In love with me! When did he ever see me before?'
3'He saw you some days ago in the forest: the day that the Prince von Schöngau shot the stag.'
5The Princess sat quite still, looking out upon the southern sky, which was all aglow with a red reflected light. Long dark lines of cloud, like bars of some Titanic prison-house, drew themselves out across the sky; and the masses of cloud, tinged with a sudden glow of crimson, formed a wild contrast with the faint blue of the dying sky, and the green of the waving woodlands below. The deepening glow spread higher over the whole heaven, till the world below became suffused with its sober brilliance, and tower and gable and the climbing ridges of the street and the white smoke-wreaths shone in the mellow
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