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'There's nothing to hurt, said Lance. 'Do you see a green box? 'A fiddle-case, you boy? 'A violin-case, said Lance, with dignity. 'Give it me. And taking out his purse, he produced its only contents namely, the key tried to sit up to unlock his treasure, but was forced by giddiness to lie back again with a gasp, and hold out the key to his friend.
Then Peer was aware of a young peasant-girl, with a box in one hand and a violin-case in the other. She wore a grey dress, with a black kerchief over her fair hair; her face was pale, and finely cut. It was his mother's face; his mother as a girl of sixteen. Now she was looking about her, and now her eyes rested on him, half afraid, half inquiring. "Is it you, Louise?" "Is that you, Peer?"
But all the time he was ashamed to feel ashamed. Those blue arch eyes of hers, constantly glancing up at him, what were they saying? "Yes, I have come," they said "and I've no one but you in all the world and here I am," they kept on saying. "Can you play that?" he asked, with a glance at her violin-case. "Oh well; my playing's only nonsense," she laughed.
He opened his violin-case, lovingly caressing the instrument as he took it out. Then he tucked it fondly under his chin, and resumed his walking. The delicately potent wine warbled through his nerves, and tinted memory with imagination. The bow, traversing the strings, drew forth from them a sweet and plaintive note, like the tender remonstrance of a neglected friend.
"I have a lot of things I could do without." "Could you do without the Sarasate?" "Long enough to hear you play it, Mr. what is your name, may I ask?" "My name is Jethro Fawe." "Well, Jethro Fawe, my Romany 'chal', you shall show me what a violin can do." "You know the Romany lingo?" Jethro asked, as Ingolby went over to the violin-case. "A little just a little." "When did you learn it?"
"Wait while I put on my bonnet," she said, as she ran past Reuben into the house. Reuben blushed a little deeper yet, and knelt over his violin-case on the grass, where he swaddled the instrument as if it had been a baby, and bestowed it in its place with unusual care and solicitude. "Reuben," said his uncle, as the young man arose, "that's a thing as never should be done."
She then said, while I stood holding on to my violin-case and umbrella and coat and a paper bag of ginger biscuits I had been solacing myself with in the watches of the night, that she hadn't known when exactly to expect me, so she had decided not to expect me at all, for she had observed that the things you do not expect come to you, and the things you do expect do not; besides, she was a busy woman, and busy women waste no time expecting anything in any case; and then she said, "Come in."
Moreover, the town was two-thirds Jewish, and consequently harder to fever with the lust of Jewish blood. David Ben Amram was hurriedly despatched to Milovka to organize a local self-defence corps. He carried as many pistols as could be stowed away in a violin-case, which, with a music-roll holding cartridges, was an obtrusive feature of his luggage. The winter was just beginning, but mildly.
One day I found him lying and watching from his bed where he now spent nearly the whole day my little Anton, who had "made a steamboat" out of his old violin-case of which the lid was gone and was travelling with it on the floor, touching at foreign ports. When I came up to the bed, David told me, smiling, that he had been at home in Nordland playing on the beach again.
Her cottage consisted of a single room on the ground floor, which served as dining-room, drawing-room, and bedroom; it was adorned with a guitar, a violin-case, a collection of animals, art-objects, and arms. The exceeding solitariness of her dwelling exposed her to frequent attacks by night, and hence a brace of pistols always hung at the head of her bed.
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