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Scan 110
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 94. See the scan on archive.org.
1report of the betrothal being spread throughout the city—I might see the Princess and indulge a secret sense of my exclusive fate.
3When I entered the theatre at the bottom of the Peterstrasse, however, I found a rumour already current that the King was not well and could not be present, and that the Princess refused to come without him. Whether the strange Crown Prince would visit the theatre alone, no one seemed to pretend to know.
5I shall remember that evening as long as I live. The little old-fashioned theatre, as I know now it must have been, so different from the great theatres I have since seen at Dresden and Berlin, seemed to me, then, to be the most gorgeous of pleasure-places, blazing with lights and crowded with what was to me a gay and brilliant throng of superbly dressed and ornamented people. I found a vacant place in the pit near the
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