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Scan 119
The Master's Violin, 1905
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1and make the best of them. There is so little that we can change! If the colours break over us, it is the fault of our sharp edges and not of the light."
3"We are getting very serious," observed Lynn. "For my part, I take each day just as it comes."
5"One day," repeated the Master. "How many possible things there are in it! What was it the poet said of Herr Columbus? Yes, I have it now. 'One day with life and hope and heart is time enough to find a world.'"
7"That is the beauty of it," put in the Doctor. "One day is surely enough. An old lady who had fallen and hurt herself badly said to me once: 'Doctor, how long must I lie here?' 'Have patience, my dear madam,' said I. 'You have only one day at a time to live. Get all the content you can out of it, and let the rest wait, like a bud, till the sun of to-morrow shows you the rose.'"
9"Did she get well?" asked Lynn.
11"Of course—why not?"
13"His sick ones always get well," said Fräulein Fredrika, timidly. "Mine brudder's friend possesses great skill."
15She was laying the table for the simple
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