: Bill Nye and Boomerang Or The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule and Some Other Literary Gems by Nye Bill - American wit and humor

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Translator: ?lise L. Lathrop

Transcriber's Note:

ASBE?N

FROM THE LIFE OF A VIRTUOSO

BY OSSIP SCHUBIN

NEW YORK WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY 1890

Press of J.J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York.

ASBE?N.

FIRST BOOK.

"But--do you really not recognize me?" With these words, and with friendly, outstretched hands, a young lady hastened toward a man who, with gloomily contracted brow, wrapped in thought, went on his way without noticing either her or his surroundings. He was foolish, for his surroundings were picturesque--Rome, near the Fontana di Trevi, on a bright March afternoon. And the young lady--she was charming.

Although she had called to him in French, something about her--one could scarcely have told what--betrayed the Russian; everything, the pampered woman from the highest circles of society.

The young man whose attention she had sought to attract in such a violent and unconventional manner was just as evidently a Russian, but of quite a different condition. One could hardly decide to what fixed sphere of society he belonged, but one perceived immediately that his manners had never been improved, polished, softened by society discipline, that he was no man of the world. He was, evidently, a man who was apart from the rank and file, a man who stood far out from the conventional frame, a man whom no one could pass without twice looking after him. His form was large and somewhat heavy; his face, framed by dark, half-curled hair, in spite of the blunt profile, reminded one of Napoleon Bonaparte, but Bonaparte in the first romantic period of his life, before he had become fat and accustomed to pose for the classic head of Caesar.

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