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Scan 176
The yellow violin, 1902
16 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 162. See the scan on archive.org.
1who had left him so many years ago. Or he had seen indications of musical talent.
3"Well, how do you feel about music, at the present time?" he asked, lingering at the table. "Do you still wish to study the violin?"
5"Oh, sir, I am not able," said Marie, a keen disappointment in her voice; "if I were I think there is nothing else in the world I should like so well."
7"How came you to leave the other place?" he asked, ignoring her answer, and drawing a chair to the table, for he was still far from strong.
9She told him.
11"Yes, I see," he said, with a far-away look over her head. "I am very glad you were led to come here. That's a grand little woman down stairs—her aim is to make everybody happy. She is precisely the person I would have chosen to look after you. By the way, I bought that violin."
13"The one I was looking at that morning?" Marie asked, startled into positive delight, for she had never forgotten that eventful hour when she longed for the thing so far beyond her reach.
15"That identical instrument. I fancied I had seen it before. So I had. It once belonged to me. It was like the face of a dear old friend."
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