Rembrandt Biblical Scene

sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal. While I was yet in the full enjoyment of it, the old woman of the house said to the Master: ¡¡¡¡'Have you got your flute with you?' ¡¡¡¡'Yes,' he returned. ¡¡¡¡'Have a blow at it,' said the old woman, coaxingly. 'Do!' ¡¡¡¡The Master, upon this, put his hand underneath the skirts of his coat, and brought out his flute in three pieces,
he screwed together, and began immediately to play. My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse. He made the most dismal sounds I have ever heard produced by any means, natural or artificial. I don't know what the tunes were - if there were such things in the performance at all, which I doubt - but the influence of the strain upon me was, first, to make me think of all my sorrows until I could hardly keep my tears back; then to take away my appetite; and lastly