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Ah," he stopped short opposite a door with the upper half of glass and peered in "surely there is one of the music rooms where I used to practise the violin. How it comes back to me after all these years!" Bruder Kalkmann stopped indulgently, smiling, to allow his guest a moment's inspection. "You still have the boys' orchestra? I remember I used to play 'zweite Geige' in it.
"Indeed she does, for she told us as much as soon as she got home; and Henrietta and Ann have made themselves very merry with their speculations on the subject of Miss Warren's great incognito. They call you Herzog von Geige." "Thank them for that." I am afraid I answered a little too pointedly, for I saw that Patt seemed surprised.
This diabolical master-piece is the subject of Gérard de Nerval’s story La Sonate du Diable . While the devil plays all instruments equally well, he seems to prefer the violin. Satan appears as fiddler in the poem “Der Teufel mit der Geige,” which has been ascribed to the Swiss anti-Papist Pamphilus Gengenbach of the sixteenth century.
Winifred never refused to sing, and Hannah slipped into the house, tuned her dear Geige and brought it out. Then she played very softly, while Winifred's sweet voice sang one quiet song after another. Dr. Harlow's tired face relaxed and, leaning back in the chair, he presently dropped off to sleep. The young people were very still, and Winifred smiled softly as she sang. Dr.
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