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The yellow violin, 1902
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1Marie had improved both in health and deportment by her contact with refined natures and a new sense of the fitness of things. Striving to copy the delicacy and beauty of Cousin Selina's character, she had gained in repose of manner, and a chivalrous self-respect. Instead of being ashamed of her past, she made it a help, not a hindrance. Her nature was reverent and her intuitions singularly pure and fervid. She had a feeling towards her benefactor that was little short of worship, and there was no duty she might have exacted that Marie would not have fulfilled to the letter. She was growing very beautiful, but as she had never been pampered with praise she had no vanity. Her teachers in the school of adversity had been very faithful with her. They had led her to look forward, always, to better things.
3"By and by," was her motto, and her Swiss inheritance was a longing for "better things." Music was her one great passion. It had been nourishment and delight to her nature from her infancy. Cousin Selina's performance on the old guitar, an instrument yellowed and mellowed by time, had seemed marvellous to her, and her fingers had itched more than once to touch the strings which
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