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Scan 146
The violin maker, 1905
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 140. See the scan on archive.org.
1"I forgive thee, gladly, and am happy to know thou art forgiven," said the good-natured German master, embracing the sobbing penitent. "Thou art, perhaps, without knowing it, the source of my good fortune."
3Francesco told his story. Hard, trying years were those which had passed over him—in his eyes a severe but well-deserved punishment for the evil which he had done to Klotz. The law followed him everywhere, and in order to escape it he had fled to foreign lands. Sometimes in this place, sometimes in that, to-day the servant of a noble lord, to-morrow a soldier, then a mule driver in the Tyrol; but never able to earn his bread as a violin maker. After several years of wandering about—so he closed his story—he had arrived this day at Mittenwald, entirely destitute and almost starved.
5Such was the story of the unfortunate Muraldi.
7Now, after he had confessed to Klotz his heart appeared lighter, and the comforting words of the master gave him peace. For many years he had not slept so well and peacefully—
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