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Scan 229
The yellow violin, 1902
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 215. See the scan on archive.org.
1"Yes, just this once, and then I hold my tongue," said the man. "I thought about it today when I saw one miserable man of my country grinding out the opera music of 'La Sonambula.' It was a better organ than mine, but it set me to thinking how wretched I was at that time when you came along and I happened to be singing an Italian song, a foolish little thing."
3"It was your pretty face that took me, boy," laughed the professor.
5"You are kind to say it, but whatever it was, it won me my master. And when I came to be your boy, and you found out I had a little talent for the piano, did you not, day and night work over me, till I could read the music?"
7"That was for my own good, you silly fellow," responded the other. "I wanted you to play my accompaniments. Think what it would have cost you if—"
9The hunchback snapped his fingers.
11"Do not I see that you care nothing for money, that you have all of it you want, and more! No, it was not that, it was for good alone, only good. You wanted to help the poor outcast at which even children sneered. You knew I was a poor cripple
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