A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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export house for wine. It had a spacious courtyard filled with numbers of large barrels, among which it was not easy to move toward the counting-house. Entering, at length, the first person who met his gaze was Viotti himself, surrounded by a legion of employes, and so absorbed in business that he did not at first notice Garat. At last he raised his head, and, recognising his old friend, seized him by the hand, and led him into an adjoining room, where he gave him a hearty welcome. Garat could not believe his senses, and stood motionless with surprise. " I see you are astonished at the metamorphosis," said Viotti; " it is certainly droit—unexpected; but what could you expect ? At Paris I was looked upon as a ruined man, lost to all my friends; it was necessary to do something to get a living, and here I am making my fortune."
But,
interrupted Garat, " have you taken into consideration all the drawbacks and annoyances of a profession to which you were not brought up, and which must be opposed to your tastes ?"
I perceive,
continued Viotti, " that you share the error which so many indulge in. Commercial enterprise is generally considered a most prosaic undertaking, but it has, nevertheless, its seductions, its prestige, its poetical side. I assure you no musician, no poet, ever
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