The Lost Stradivarius
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The Lost Stradivarius
by J. Meade Falkner
- Letter from MISS SOPHIA MALTRAVERS
- to her Nephew, SIR EDWARD MALTRAVERS,
- then a Student at Christ Church, Oxford.
- 13 Pauncefort Buildings, Bath,
- Oct. 21, 1867.
- MY DEAR EDWARD,
- It was your late father's dying request that certain events which occurred in his last years should be communicated to you on your coming of age. I have reduced them to writing, partly from my own recollection, which is, alas! still too vivid, and partly with the aid of notes taken at the time of my brother's death. As you are now of full age, I submit the narrative to you. Much of it has necessarily been exceedingly painful to me to write, but at the same time I feel it is better that you should hear the truth from me than garbled stories from others who did not love your father as I did.
- Your loving Aunt,
- SOPHIA MALTRAVERS
To Sir Edward Maltravers, Bart.
- "A tale out of season is as music in mourning."
- —ECCLESIASTICUS xxii. 6.
Contents
[edit]- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Mr. Gaskell's Note
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