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Scan 51
Teacher Of The Violin And Other Tales, 1888
10 lines. Read by computer on 19 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1across the strings himself and played some bars, from, I imagine, some old forgotten Italian master. As he played the solemn chords of the sonata, in the magnetic resonance of its full smooth rich notes, there was something that seemed to fill all space, to lead and draw the nerves and brain, as over gorgeous sun-coloured pavements and broad stately terraces, with alluring sound and speech.
3He laid down the violin after he had played for a few minutes, and went to the harpsichord, which stood near to the window looking down into the street.
5'You know something of music,' he said to me: 'do you understand this?'
7He struck a single clear note upon the harpsichord and turned towards the window, a casement of which was open towards the crowded street.
9'Down there,' he said,—'where I know
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