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Scan 278
The yellow violin, 1902
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 264. See the scan on archive.org.
1makes people blind, he says, and it weakened his eyes to such an extent that by the advice of a physician, he has worn glasses ever since. He doesn't mind them now."
3Anne was making pillows for the big lounge in the sitting-room, Ralph's favorite resting place.
5"Well, he certainly is too remarkable to throw himself away as a farm hand," said Anne, measuring off some linen. "Doesn't he talk well? It seems to me he knows everything. His name is a very ordinary one, though—just Tom Merton. And he has been abroad, too. How do you suppose he went? Or perhaps he was born abroad."
7"He certainly seems to have turned his knowledge to the best account," said Cousin Selina.
9"And don't you know, I think Ralph is a little jealous," Anne went on, flourishing a big pair of shears over her work. "Do you not notice how he watches him so strangely, almost furtively. I believe he half envies him his strength. Poor Ralph! He would willingly work if he were only strong enough. And I declare there's something so much like him in Tom's manner sometimes, Poor Ralph! if he could only get strong—only be well again. I sometimes fancy he never will."
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