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Scan 94
The Master's Violin, 1905
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1he had seen—but there was never a word about the Cremona.
3"Mine friend, the Doctor," said the Master, "do you perchance know him?"
5"Yes," answered Lynn, "I have that pleasure. He's all right, isn't he?"
7"So he thinks," returned the Master, missing the point of the phrase. "In an argument, one can never convince him. He thinks it is for me to go out on one grand tour and give many concerts and secure much fame, but why should I go, I ask him, when I am happy here? So many people know what should make one happy a thousand times better than the happy one knows. Life," he said again, "is very strange."
9It was a long time before he spoke again. "I have had mine fame," he said. "I have played to great houses both here and abroad, and women have thrown red roses at me and mine violin. There has been much in the papers, and I have had many large sums, which, of course, I have always given to the poor. One should use one's art to do good with and not to become rich. I have mine house, mine clothes, all that is good for me to eat, mine sister and mine—" he hesitated
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