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On the porch only the red tips of the burning cigars were visible, and the voices of the speakers took on something soft and reassured, as if they were trying to attune themselves to the dying sounds that were straying through the night. Lisa was sitting beside the lieutenant and speaking of Greece. "You see, Marathon, what did Marathon use to be to me?
He wasn't even a lyre; he was a pipe for Fortune's finger to sound what stop she pleased; and, judging from the tone of his playing, and the selection of his songs, it had pleased that irresponsible goddess to attune the chords of his being to a love, pure as heaven, sad as earth, and hopeless as the other place. Who is she? thought I.
It ended with a chanting perlustration of the church, led by the priest: this is the so-called "pesatura." I endeavoured to attune my mind to the gravity of this marriage, to the deep historico-ethnologico-poetical significance of its smallest detail.
But the moment after, some wild whim would make her resume her antic movements; and all went worse than before. The priest then spoke in a kind although serious tone: "My fair young maiden, surely no one can look on you without pleasure; but remember betimes so to attune your soul that it may produce a harmony ever in accordance with the soul of your wedded bridegroom."
Miss Abingdon thought that he was doing so and respected him for it; she even tried to attune her mind to his, and endeavoured to see vanity of vanities in this informal gathering of friends. 'We do not think enough of serious things, she said. The inhabitants of Sedgwick put on sporting airs and curiously cut overcoats on two days in each year.
To harmony one has to attune oneself. "I believe," said Miss Janie, as she drew away, wiping her cheek, "one could teach that donkey anything." Apparently she regarded willingness to kiss her as indication of exceptional amiability. "Except to work," commented her father. "I'll tell you what I'll do," he said.
Who could have expected her to associate with people who show contempt for their Maker's intentions by flippantly assuming other characters than those in which He created them? 'You mistake her, murmured Somerset, in a voice which he vainly endeavoured to attune to philosophy.
To attune the Anglo-Saxon reader's mind to sympathy with a mentality so alien to his own, requires that Tolstoy's environment should be described more fully than most of his biographers have cared to do.
Wherever men strive for freedom, or seek to attune their lives to the strange spiritual music that breathes through all things music that none ever heard more clearly than he there is Shelley like the morning star to guide them and inspire. Think what Wordsworth means to the spiritual thought of the modern world.
I never supposed she could look so pretty or come so near being agreeable as she does now. Evidently mountain-fever is what the English emigrant of the higher classes needs to thaw him out and attune him to American ways. It's a pity they can't all be inoculated with it on landing.
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