`` Ever since you have lived with me you have been deceiving me like this , Felix ? '' There was no anger in Mr. Leonard 's tone -- only measureless sorrow . The boy 's sensitive lips quivered . `` Forgive me , grandfather , '' he whispered beseechingly . `` You never forbid him to come , '' old Abel broke in angrily . `` Be just , Mr. Leonard -- be just . '' `` I AM just . Felix knows that he has disobeyed me , in the spirit if not in the letter . Do you not know it , Felix ? '' `` Yes , grandfather , I have done wrong -- I 've known that I was doing wrong every time I came . Forgive me , grandfather . '' `` Felix , I forgive you , but I ask you to promise me , here and now , that you will never again , as long as you live , touch a violin . '' Dusky crimson rushed madly over the boy 's face . He gave a cry as if he had been lashed with a whip . Old Abel sprang to his feet . `` Do n't you ask such a promise of him , Mr. Leonard , '' he cried furiously . `` It 's a sin , that 's what it is . Man , man , what blinds you ? You ARE blind . Ca n't you see what is in the boy ?
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