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Updated: June 22, 2025
I do not advise you, young man, even if my illustration strike your fancy, to consecrate the flower of your life to painting the bowl of a pipe, for, let me assure you, the stain of a reverie-breeding narcotic may strike deeper than you think for. Violins, too, the sweet old Amati! the divine Stradivarius!
Drugg might have owned one of these famous violins not one of the most ancient, perhaps and told nobody here about it. Why! the ordinary Polktownite would think just as much of a two-dollar-and-a-half fiddle as of a real Stradivarius or an Amati." While she was at the task, Janice took some notes of what she read.
My brother was greatly pleased at so favourable a verdict, and Mr. Smart continued "The varnish is of that rich red which Stradivarius used in his best period after he had abandoned the yellow tint copied by him at first from his master Amati.
Joyselle had returned with a look of having just brushed his hair. He looked smoothed down in some way and was a little pale. "My faith, she does, ma vieille," he returned. "When she opened the door I was so startled that I guess what I did, children? Dropped the Amati!"
"You give Shellak a hundred and twenty-five dollars?" Morris exploded. "Are you crazy, oder what?" "It was a genu-ine Amati," Abe explained; "and so soon as I seen it, Mawruss, I thought to myself if them cut-throats could sell Geigermann a big bill of goods just by playing on fiddles, y'understand, what sort of an order could I get out of him supposing I should give him a fiddle yet?
Little son, come to me at twelve exactly every day, and I will fiddle with you for an hour until one; then Durand comes. "You can imagine how I hastened, with a throbbing heart, to the Baron's the next forenoon at the appointed hour. "He would not let me play a single note on my own violin, which I had brought with me, but placed in my hands a very old instrument by Antonio Amati.
She was the sort who would understand, if he told her. She had a soul big with understanding. It was that he walked in the shadow of death, and would so long as Karlov was free; and he could not ask any woman to share that. He pushed back his chair slowly. In the living room he took the Amati from its case and began improvising.
"Had it been a Stradivarius, an Amati or a Guarnerius, or a host of others rolled into one, you would not have found in it the melody to win the heart of the woman you love. Get a better and more suitable instrument." "Where is one?" earnestly interrogated Diotti, vaguely realizing that Satan knew. "In my possession," Satan replied.
A broken melody entered her head. Sleepily she sought one channel of thought after another to escape; still the melody persisted. As her consciousness dodged hither and thither the bars and measures joined.... She sat up, chilled, bewildered. That Tschaikowsky waltz! She could hear it as clearly as if Johnny Two-Hawks and the Amati were in the very room. She grew afraid. Of what? She did not know.
I remembered your violin as I heard it behind me last night an Amati, I fancy?" I nodded assent. "A beautiful instrument. I may some day ask you to let me try it you and I can never be quite strangers after to-night." He paused, pounded the side-walk with his stick, impatiently, as if the long preamble made him as nervous as it did me. Then, looking me in the face, he said rapidly: "This is it.
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