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n;y,self to death ? No ! 1 dosi't think I shall trouble myself about it.”
11 Oh, Raoul i 1' cried Frans, the little fellow who sal by Carl, lfyou
forget that it ^ to be the most beautiful violin in Germany, arid i.o be
given to us Oy d’-C Empress IierseiL And the hvo Iiuudred thalers—
ju it tli::ik of tb.it ! '' anc F ran z7 ~ dark eyes prow bright Co think what
he could do with them.
"Really/' returued Rr.mih insolently, “ you tToil’t mean to .say ill-l
you arc going to iry ! Why, the hist time you played you broke down
entirely !."
The color mounted into Franz's face, and the tears came into his
eyes ; ;md Carl f.ru.d cut augril y :
'* For shirane! j'O-i hnow very well that it \vi>s only fright that made
Franz fail.”
11 Don't mind him,'' he :;aid, putting h:s arm around his friend's ncck,
"he is only hateful, a-; he a.lwa.y.s is. Let us ”tj and .sec vho is to be
cjiost;3i for the conceit. Come, Fran;:! :1
11 Xo, Car'/: iT■ i h rs friend, quietly; " I would rather "tay here.
Y ou go mid niid o l ; and [.hen H.ome and tell me."
The Kin press once a year ^r.ve a. prize 1o the school, bi.it this year
it Wiii to be finer than usual, and her Majesty had sent to 11 err Bach
and roq^e^Lcd him to choose live o i'll is best boy s, cach of whom -wins
to compose a piece of his own. No one was to see it until the end of
tlirr.'e weeks, when they were to play it ;:.t a grand concert, which the
imperial family were to avtend with the whole court. .Fran? was very
anxious to be chosen, for be v.anted the |.:H?e very nuieb. liethought
how pleased d'ie mother wo:i.d he, and he thought how hard sne
worked 1:o give her little boy a musical education, and liowr many com­
forts the to rder.’ won Id buy. Oh, he would work hard for it. The
dear mot he: would hi;: so surpriseJ. And he fell into a brown study,
from which he was awakened by feeling a pair of strong arms around
him, and being frantically whirled around the room, while a voice
.shouted ii: Ids ear ;
“ We've p;ot it! We're chosen— you Gottfried, Johann., old hafefu!
Raoul, and I I ”