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Scan 65
Voice and violin, 1898
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 45. See the scan on archive.org.
1upon such an instrument in the streets of Paris was quite enough to attract the attention of passers-by.
3This young person was, then, not only pretty, but she played remarkably well, and upon an instrument that looked clean and well cared for; and it had a remarkably sweet tone.
5I could never discover how it was that, when I knew her under the Second Empire, she happened to have two wooden legs. It was probably the result of some street accident; for she seems never to have left Paris. Possibly, she may have been injured during the firing in the streets at the time of the coup d'état, when the soldiers were instructed to fire low, and many innocent persons were shot down by the troops. It was a rascally business, as every one knows.
7The sweet tones of her violin attracted the attention of the public; people turned to look at her. Her pretty, intelligent face did the rest, and she seems to have made a comfortable living by the sale of her songs and engravings. She was even able to save money, to get married, and to bring up a daughter as quite a fashionable young lady. But I am anticipating.
9Let us go back to the time when the little violinist was a pretty girl of about eighteen years of age, sitting all day long before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has now disappeared, to make room for the large shops of M. Giroux.
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