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Updated: May 21, 2025
"You are an extraordinarily healthy man, to all appearances. Have you ever suffered from bad health?" "Measles." "Immaterial." "Very unpleasant, though." "Nothing else?" "Mumps." "Unimportant." "Not to me. I looked like a water-melon." "Nothing besides? No serious illnesses?" "None." "What is your age?" "Twenty-five." "Are your parents living?" "No." "Were they healthy?" "Fit as fiddles."
When he was near his palace, he heard sounds of joy, and fiddles, and flutes, and the people told him that his wife was celebrating her wedding with another. Then he fell into a rage, and said, "False woman, she betrayed and deserted me whilst I was asleep!" So he put on his cloak, and unseen by all went into the palace.
A spiteful sea sprang at the Kansas and shook her from stem to stern. The ship groaned and creaked as though she were in pain; she staggered an instant, and then swung irresistibly forward with a fierce plunge that made the plates dance and cutlery rattle in the fiddles. "I suppose we must endure five hours of this," said Elsie, bravely. "I don't like it.
You must learn what it is to be hungry." The squat man picked up the bundle from the table and tore off the wrapping paper. A violin the colour of old Burgundy lay revealed. "Boris!" The man in the chair writhed. "Have I waked you, Stefani?" tenderly. "The Stradivarius the very grand duke of fiddles!
The sala was on the second floor; the musicians sat on the corridor beyond the open windows and scraped their fiddles and twanged their guitars, awaiting the coming of the American officers. Before long the regular tramp of many feet turning from Alvarado Street up the little Primera del Este, facing Mr. Larkin's house, made dark eyes flash, lace and silken gowns flutter.
The loft of old Caleb's barn had been cleared for that day, and through the afternoon the fiddles whined there, alternating with the twang of banjo and "dulcimore."
"I was too busy to heed the time," said Betty, "for I obtained the recipe for those delicious almond-cakes, and showed Mrs. Waldron the Vienna mode of clearing coffee. When I came back the fiddles were playing, and Aurelia going down the middle with a young gentleman in a scarlet coat.
If, on entering the door, the visitor turned to the left, he found himself in a magazine of old clothes, old furniture, china, umbrellas, guns, fishing-rods, dirty fiddles, and split flutes.
Beside a fiddler of the first rank the rich old maid with the poodle was a hail fellow well met. Of course Gregor had taught the chap. That meant he would know instantly; just as his host would instantly observe the difference between green glass and green beryl. Cutty turned into the shop, infinitely amused. Fiddles! What next?
Tom-toms, jews'-harps, and even fiddles were to be heard, and the melancholy Malay songs sounded not unpleasantly far into the night. Almost every day there was a cock-fight in the street. The spectators make a ring, and after the long steel spurs are tied on, and the poor animals are set down to gash and kill each other, the excitement is immense.
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