Scan 72
Voice and violin : sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1898
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 52. See the scan on archive.org.
1plains the subject. A young itinerant musician, seated upon a bank at the roadside, has just finished a performance on his violin, whilst a lovely girl at his side has sunk down exhausted, with her head upon his shoulders, her tambourine, still held in her delicate hand, touching the ground. The girl, wearied by her labours, has fainted and fallen against him, apparently in a deep sleep, but pale as death, and the sad expression upon the bronzed features of the young violinist as he contemplates the calm, angelic face of his beautiful companion, thus suddenly struck down by fatigue and misery, is very touching.
3To those who know the history of Giorgi it is still more affecting. Anyhow, this picture by Gallait is another chef d'œuvre.
5Towards the latter end of the last century, or, to be more precise as regards our narrative, in the earliest years of the present one, there stood a small farm in the wild country at a certain unknown distance from Buda-Pesth.
7It consisted of a few thatched wooden sheds, where the cows were sheltered from the rain, and the corn and fodder stored for the winter. One of these structures, rather larger and somewhat less coarse, served as a dwelling for four persons—a father, a mother, and two young children. It was the home of the farmer Giorgi, an honest, hard-working man, who had formerly been a
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