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Scan 55
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 39. See the scan on archive.org.
1distant blue mountains and forests of the Fichtelgebirge, where my home had been.
3The room was somewhat crowded with furniture, chiefly large old oaken presses or cabinets apparently full of books, a harpsichord, clavichord, and several violins. In the centre of this apartment, as he rose to receive us, stood an elderly man, rather shabbily dressed, with an absent expression in his face.
5'Herr Veitch,' said my guide, 'permit me to present to you Herr von Saale, a young gentleman of distinguished family and connections, who has come to reside in our university. He is anxious to perfect himself in the violin, upon which he is already no mean performer.'
7I was amazed at the glibness with which this surprising old gentleman discoursed upon that of which he knew so little.
9The old violinist looked at me with a
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