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Scan 56
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 40. See the scan on archive.org.
1dazed and even melancholy expression, his eyes seemed to me to say as clearly as words could have spoken: 'Here is another frivolous impostor intruded upon me.'
3'Is this one of my daughter's days?' said my friend, the old gentleman.
5'No; I expect her to-morrow about this time.'
7'The Princess,' said my friend, 'is very shy: she dislikes taking lessons from men, and prefers to gain her knowledge of music from my daughter.'
9The old master took up a violin that lay upon the table and handed it to me. I played a simple lesson that had been left me by the Italian, the only one that had taken my fancy, for it had in its few notes, as it seemed to me, something of the pleading of the whispering wind.
11The old man took the violin from me without a word: then he drew the bow
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