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The prisoner was now kneeling with clasped hands before the cut-throats, begging for his life for the sake of his wife and children, in heartrending accents, to which his executioners replied in mocking tones, "We have got you at last into our hands, have we? You dog of a Bonapartist, why do you not call on your emperor to come and help you out of this scrape?"

As I leaped from my horse a fringe of savages broke from cover and began shooting. Cousin dropped the foremost of them. I led the horse inside the cabin and my companion closed and barred the door. The interior of the place mutely related the tragic story. It is the homely background of a crime that accents the terrible. On the table was the breakfast of the family, scarcely touched.

Not the sanguine mind of the enamoured Ferdinand Armine. He drank inspiration from her smiles, and dwelt with delight on the tender accents of her animating sympathy. 'I never shall be low-spirited with you, he replied; 'you are my good genius. O Henrietta! what heaven it is to be together! 'I bless you for these words. We will not go to Armine to-day. Let us walk.

And as I read the latter the obituary over, with tears in my eyes, what should I hear but the words, spoken at my back, clearly, but in unmistakable cockney accents, "Shove the fifth!" followed by uproarious laughter. I grabbed up the ink-bottle and threw it with all my strength back of me, and succeeded only in destroying the wall-paper.

Then one of the women, with a fat good-natured face and eyes rimmed redly round with weeping, elbowed her way through the little throng to the front and spoke. "May the Holy Virgin and saints bless your majesty!" she cried, in shrill accents. "And as for what is wrong, it would soon be right if those shameless pigs," pointing to the beccamorti, "would let us alone.

Mary Woodley bent down in eager grief, for she felt instinctively that the bitter hour at last was come: their lips met, and the last accents of the mother murmured, "Beloved Mary, I I have been true to you no will no" A slight tremor shook her frame: the spirit that looked in love from the windows of the eyes departed on its heavenward journey, and the unconscious shell only of what had once been her mother remained in the sobbing daughter's arms.

No sooner did the African turn his tiger glance upon her than the fire of his eyes died out; and when she spoke to him in the dear accents of his native tongue, the matter of strife vanished from his mind. He loved. He sat down tamely in his irons and listened to Palmyre's argument as a wrecked mariner would listen to ghostly church-bells.

The interpreter would understand where accents and other indications of expression should occur and why they should so occur, and would be able, in however feeble a way, to find and reveal the true heart music that lies hidden in the notes. It is never too early in a course of music study to consider the requirements of musical expression.

'That's very likely.... Listen, Nikolai Eremyitch, Pavel began in despairing accents. 'For the last time, I beg you.... You force me to it can't stand it any longer. Let us alone, do you hear? or else, by God, it'll go ill with one or other of us I mean with you! The fat man flew into a rage. 'I'm not afraid of you! he shouted; 'do you hear, milksop?

Hasten to her, wilt thou!".. and his accents trembled with pathetic plaintiveness! ... "Say I am gone! ... lost! drawn into a night of everlasting blackness like a taper blown swiftly out by the wind, . . tell her that Sah-luma, the poet Sah-luma, the foolish-credulous Sah-luma who loved her so madly is no more!"