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Scan 325
The yellow violin, 1902
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 309. See the scan on archive.org.
1then her father had determined to give a fête such as had never been seen in those parts before. All the people round about were invited, and the entertainment was to take place on the lawn. Marie was to be the queen of the occasion, and the home was transformed into a hive of working bees, making ready for the festivities.
3On the same night, when the party was well under way, a poor widow sat in her little home in the lower part of the city, gazing with unbelieving eyes on a check which had been sent by some one who evidently knew of her trials and her poverty. It was for five hundred dollars and intended for her use alone. The writer promised her the same amount every six months for a term of years, if she would use it for herself and the two little children, whom death had thrown into her guardianship.
5The children were asleep in their little flock beds, dreaming of a coming Christmas, for they were sadly in need of shoes and stockings, and Santa Claus had never provided very liberally for them, but now, through some unknown agency which the poor old widow never found out, competence had come, bringing everything their modest wishes called for, and promising a delightful Christmas.
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