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A teacher of the violin and other tales
Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1903. London, New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
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| 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 | 13 | through grass and the whisper within the… | Read |
| 30 | 14 | associated certain thoughts with its mes… | Read |
| 31 | 15 | They played a singular rapid music with… | Read |
| 32 | 16 | I pondered over these words, and for a l… | Read |
| 33 | 17 | a sufficient and adequate voice. This co… | Read |
| 34 | 18 | times, on special occasions, an ornament… | Read |
| 36 | 20 | view, but at the second or third, in the… | Read |
| 37 | 21 | Finally, she insisted upon my staying wi… | Read |
| 38 | 22 | his tutor. This tutor, an Italian, perfo… | Read |
| 39 | 23 | violin vibrates with the according note… | Read |
| 40 | 24 | through the medium of grass and reed and… | Read |
| 41 | 25 | himself, or to allow any one else to pla… | Read |
| 42 | 26 | ished instruments behind him, with some… | Read |
| 43 | 27 | treated me as her own son. At the end of… | Read |
| 49 | 33 | as though the passing scenes before me w… | Read |
| 50 | 34 | when they do talk, is always worth liste… | Read |
| 51 | 35 | most inclined, and what is the future to… | Read |
| 52 | 36 | cathedral, the vast west window of which… | Read |
| 53 | 37 | The old gentleman seemed rather disappoi… | Read |
| 54 | 38 | patronymic.' Accordingly, some months af… | Read |
| 55 | 39 | distant blue mountains and forests of th… | Read |
| 56 | 40 | dazed and even melancholy expression, hi… | Read |
| 57 | 41 | across the strings himself and played so… | Read |
| 58 | 42 | not, but somewhere down there,—is a hear… | Read |
| 59 | 43 | his heart vibrates in such notes: his li… | Read |
| 60 | 44 | do you not feel that for the race itself… | Read |
| 61 | 45 | They are not devils. Herr von Saale,' he… | Read |
| 62 | 46 | frame, even to the finger-tips, with the… | Read |
| 63 | 47 | Veitch to-morrow, when perhaps you will… | Read |
| 64 | 48 | fingering, the most instinctive aptitude… | Read |
| 65 | 49 | and imposing domestic in the royal liver… | Read |
| 66 | 50 | violin, and your father seemed much take… | Read |
| 67 | 51 | a concerted piece. The beauty of the pla… | Read |
| 68 | 52 | solemn poplars with the weird and awful… | Read |
| 77 | 61 | small scale, after the fashion of the Fr… | Read |
| 78 | 62 | stone palace with its carved pilasters a… | Read |
| 79 | 63 | have committed a blunder. I begged to be… | Read |
| 80 | 64 | were very lively and quick; but the grea… | Read |
| 81 | 65 | assumed an expression of embarrassment,… | Read |
| 82 | 66 | The Professor came to the rescue with gr… | Read |
| 83 | 67 | my excitement I had the sense to take th… | Read |
| 84 | 68 | the earth with toil and sorrow and grime… | Read |
| 87 | 71 | Immediately in front, over a terrace or… | Read |
| 88 | 72 | forest-land. The white smoke-wreaths fro… | Read |
| 89 | 73 | of touch, most surprising as he is only… | Read |
| 90 | 74 | eyes softened to an expression which was… | Read |
| 91 | 75 | light. The distant stretch of country fl… | Read |
| 93 | 77 | sibility, and when she died, after havin… | Read |
| 94 | 78 | only by one companion, among the poor an… | Read |
| 95 | 79 | 'Sire,' said the Princess to her father,… | Read |
| 96 | 80 | Fräulein says, is expression. His playin… | Read |
| 97 | 81 | wand announced, after the manner of the… | Read |
| 98 | 82 | was followed by several ladies, and thre… | Read |
| 99 | 83 | came a trio of Corelli's, in which the h… | Read |
| 100 | 84 | seemed to call her with a resistless pow… | Read |
| 105 | 89 | Herr Veitch did not even appear to have… | Read |
| 106 | 90 | came a change, which was entirely of my… | Read |
| 107 | 91 | has fascinated you. You are no longer th… | Read |
| 108 | 92 | relate one incident, so fatuous and unwo… | Read |
| 109 | 93 | more scornful than ever; and I conceived… | Read |
| 110 | 94 | report of the betrothal being spread thr… | Read |
| 111 | 95 | orchestra. When I entered the curtain ha… | Read |
| 112 | 96 | another direction, and a young distingui… | Read |
| 113 | 97 | confidence and desire to pit myself agai… | Read |
| 123 | 107 | pletely exorcised, as though the courage… | Read |
| 124 | 108 | I stopped suddenly, remembering that the… | Read |
| 125 | 109 | soul. There was no sound but that of the… | Read |
| 126 | 110 | At last he comes for whom it was predest… | Read |
| 127 | 111 | peace for the wearied and troubled brain… | Read |
| 128 | 112 | and the blinds and jalousies drawn down… | Read |
| 129 | 113 | met together, or in the homes where they… | Read |