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Scan 68
A teacher of the violin and other tales, 1891
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 52. See the scan on archive.org.
1solemn poplars with the weird and awful notes that sounded amid their distant branches high above me in the sky. When I stopped I fancied that the brown eyes looked at me with a softer and more kindly gaze.
3'He will do,' said the master; 'he will play the trio before the Princess anon, if he will be good.'
5For several days I was very good: I practised continually scales and passages and shades of accent, both with the master and in my chamber at the 'Three Roses,' where, had I not been in Germany, I should no doubt have been thought a nuisance. I saw the Fräulein Adelheid almost every day, and was allowed once or twice to play in a simple piece. So everything seemed to prosper, when one fatal day I broke waywardly loose from this virtuous and regular course. It was after this manner that it came about.
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