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A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
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1Veitch to-morrow, when perhaps you will see my daughter.'
3He seemed to me strangely willing that I should see his daughter.
5He took me into the great cathedral and showed me the gigantic mailed figures that guarded the tombs of the kings, talking very learnedly upon heraldry, about which he seemed to know a great deal. The next morning I went to Herr Veitch at the appointed time and found him alone, playing over a set of old Italian sonatas. He seemed to have been much put out by the Professor's remarks of the day before, and to regard me with kindliness as having been apparently on the opposite side; but when he came to talk to me I did not see much difference between his advice and that of the Professor.
7'The Professor is so far right,' he said, 'in that of all instruments the violin needs the most careful study, the most practised
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