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Scan 178
The yellow violin, 1902
16 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 164. See the scan on archive.org.
1you are, and I shall make it my business to look after you a little—I mean, of course, in a musical way. My little girl would have been near your age; yes, she would even have looked like you," and he scanned her face eagerly—it seemed almost as if he restrained himself from taking her at once to his heart and giving her a fatherly embrace. Then he went across the room and returned with the violin she had seen in the shop window on that memorable day. She smiled appreciative delight as her eyes fell upon the instrument.
3"How I do love it!" she said.
5"Now let me see you hold it," and he placed it in her hands.
7In a sort of intuitive fashion she placed the instrument against her shoulder and he nodded approvingly.
9"You have it," he said—"it is an inborn gift, inherited from your father." Then he held out the bow.
11"Oh, but I couldn't use that," she said, half frightened. He looked at her almost sternly, and spoke but one word,
13"Try!"
15She did try. The wrist came easily into place,
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