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FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 186. See the scan on archive.org.
1the proprietors of the saloon considered discretion to be the better part of valour. It was a delicate method of making the young man a present in a time of difficulty, but one of which the moral effect could hardly fail to be injurious.
3At one time, when he was ill and homeless, he entered a house in the Rue des Martyrs in which there were rooms to let. He was received and treated kindly, and was nursed through a long illness by the landlady and her granddaughter.
5He tried to secure a place in the orchestra of the Opéra Comique, but his arrogance lost him the position, for when he was requested to play a piece at sight, it seemed to him so simple that he asked at which end he should begin. This offence caused him to be rejected without a hearing.
7Fortune, however, began at last to smile upon him when he made the acquaintance of M. Lacour, a violin maker, who conceived
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