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A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 51. See the scan on archive.org.
1a concerted piece. The beauty of the playing, however, soon soothed my ruffled vanity and banished every thought save that of delight. The master and pupil were playing in perfect accord both in feeling and sympathetic touch—the old man and the stately beautifully dressed girl—it was a delicious banquet of sight and sound.
3After they had played some time, Herr Veitch said, to my great delight: 'Otto will play you a lesson of his which the whispering woodlands of his mountains have taught him. You will like it.'
5I took the bow with a tremor of delight and excitement. I played my very best. I endeavoured only to listen to—to think only of the woodland voices that had spoken to the child; and after a few moments I seemed, indeed, once again to be a child beside the lancelike waving rushes with their sunny dance-music, by the pool, or beneath the
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