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Scan 169
The second violin, 1906
14 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 143. See the scan on archive.org.
1I’ve engaged plenty of room. There’ll be no trouble about a berth——”
3“O Uncle Ray!” Celia interrupted him. There could be no question about her unselfish soul. If she had been happy before, she was rapturous now.
5“Three months will give her quite a journey,” the captain hurried on, leaving nobody any time for objections. “I’ll see that she gets art enough out of it to fill her to the brim with inspiration. And there will surely be somebody she can come back with. May I have her?”
7“What shall we do with you?” his sister said, softly. “I can’t deny you—or her. If her father agrees——”
9“If I didn’t know your big heart so well, Jack,” said Roderick Birch, slowly, “I should be too proud to accept so much, even from my wife’s brother. But I believe it would be unworthy of me—or of you—to let false pride stand in my girls’ way.”
11From the distance two figures were approaching, one in blue linen, the other in white flannel—Charlotte and Doctor Churchill.
13They were talking gaily, laughing like a pair of very happy children, and carrying between them a great bunch of daisies and buttercups that would have hid a church pulpit from view.
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