4/10 "If you hadn't been shut up sick just now, you'd have heard him yourself. He plays everywhere--everywhere he goes." "Is that so ?" murmured Jack politely, shuddering a little at what he fancied would come from a violin played by a boy like the one before him. (Jack could play the violin himself a little--enough to know it some, and love it more.) "Hm-m; well, and what else do you do ?" "Nothing, except to go for walks and read." "Nothing!--a big boy like you--and on Simeon Holly's farm ?" Voice and manner showed that Jack was not unacquainted with Simeon Holly and his methods and opinions. 'Horas non numero nisi serenas,' you knew," he quoted pleasantly, smiling into the man's astonished eyes. |