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Scan 139
The second violin, 1906
18 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 115. See the scan on archive.org.
1"Wh-what's up?" he grunted, blinking like an owl.
3"Nothing serious. What was Charlotte going to do with her colour drawings? Show them to some wall-paper manufacturers?"
5"What—er—yes—no. What do you know about it?" Jeff was up on his elbow now, staring at his uncle.
7"All about it—except that."
9"Charlotte tell you? I didn't think she——"
11"She didn't. I guessed—and found out. You may as well tell me the rest."
13"Isn't it a shame? Poor girl's worked months on those things; just got 'em done. You ought to have seen them; they were great. I told her she could take them as they were, but she wouldn't hear of it."
15"But where were they going?"
17"To Mr. Murdock, at Chrystler & Company's office. He saw something of Charlotte's once by chance, through a niece of his who's Charlotte's friend, and he sent word to Fiddle that she ought to cultivate that colour sense, or whatever it was, I forget what he called it—for she had it to an unusual degree. Charlotte has cultivated it for two years since then, and now—oh, confound that baby! That's what you get for trying to be
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