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Scan 233
The yellow violin, 1902
18 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 219. See the scan on archive.org.
1"He is getting on very slowly, Cousin Selina says. Sometimes she thinks if he could go to the country he would recover sooner."
3"Ah, perhaps. Well, yes, it would be a good thing. And does he wish it?"
5"Oh, very much," said Marie, daintily sipping from her wine glass, "and his sister, Miss Anne, wishes it more than any of us."
7"A very nice girl, Miss Anne seems," said Professor Castelin.
9"She is lovely," was Marie's response. "She doesn't mind how much I practice, when sometimes I think she must get tired."
11"And why does the little lady not go into the country?" asked the master.
13"I—don't believe she can afford it," said Marie, putting down her grapes. "Oh, how nice it must be to be rich! I wish I were rich."
15"Pray what would you do if you were rich?" was the next question, as the master leisurely picked at his grapes.
17"Why, the first thing would be to buy a little cottage in the country for Cousin Selina," was the eager response. "It should have a garden and an orchard, and I would get hens and chickens and a
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