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Scan 119
The yellow violin, 1902
14 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 107. See the scan on archive.org.
1may be other rooms, I like this, and I like you, so Cousin Selina is going to put a cot bed in here for me. There's plenty of room."
3"That will be delightful. Then you will be with your brother all the time," said Marie.
5"All the time I am not at school," was the smiling response.
7"Oh! school!" and Marie's countenance—so expressive that one could almost read her thoughts—suddenly fell, and she sighed.
9"It must be beautiful to go to school," she said. "I never went."
11"Never went to school!" Anne looked incredulous. "But you—you read, and write, of course you do."
13"Oh, yes," Marie answered simply. "My mother was the daughter of a Swiss clergyman. I have some of his letters to her. So she was well educated, and she taught me, herself, till I was thirteen. I was to go to school then, but some misfortune came, and father grew very poor, and at last went home for his health and to get some money if he could. He never came back—he died there. Mother got word and it seemed to break her down. She never was well afterward, but she kept
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