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Scan 20
The yellow violin, 1902
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 10. See the scan on archive.org.
1cealed his mouth. He drew his breath hard, two or three times, and was evidently battling with some strong emotion, which he succeeded in suppressing.
3"Now, if you will give me your present address," he went on, his searching glance on her face, "because I may wish to call. Perhaps I can find you a more congenial place—where your work will be pleasanter."
5"Oh, if you could!" the child said, pleadingly. "I am living with a German and his family. They keep a little grocery, and I don't like to wait upon the customers when they want beer. I can do the other things easily, but mamma hated beer. Oh, I haven't given you the street and the number. It's forty-nine Chapel street, right near the big church. You can't miss it."
7"Oh, no, I know just where it is," he said, placing his notebook back in his pocket. "I shall not forget you, sweetest Marie."
9The girl smiled, thinking him the handsomest old gentleman she had ever seen. And it pleased her to hear the old name of endearment, "sweetest Marie." Her mother had died with the caressing name on her lips. What sorrowful as well as pleasant memories it evoked!
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