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Down the stretch they race, the black and the gray, panting, sobbing, spattered with foam, nearer and nearer, while the crowd rocks and sways about the great pavilion, and buzzes with surprise and uncertainty. Then all at once, above this sound, a single voice is heard, a mighty voice, a roaring bellow, such, surely, as only a mariner could possess. "It's Mr. Beverley, sir!" roars the voice.
'All I beg of you is, said Lady Jocelyn, 'that you won't let us have turnips within the circuit of a mile'; which was obligingly promised. The morning letters were delivered and opened with the customary calmness. 'Letter from old George, Harry sings out, and buzzes over a few lines. 'Halloa!
I myself the little, easy, cheerful man you know, who, of his own accord, would hardly lift up his handkerchief to strike down the fly that buzzes about his face I, in my younger time, under provocation so dreadful that I will not tell you of it, entered the Brotherhood by an impulse, as I might have killed myself by an impulse.
When he has a spare hour at his disposal, let him drop in at the Museum, and wander among its books and its various collections. He will know as much about it as the fly that buzzes in at one window and out at another. If I were asked whether I brought away anything from my two visits, I should say, Certainly I did. The fly sees some things, not very intelligently, but he cannot help seeing them.
Sound is not necessarily noise. The idea conveyed is not intended to be a condition in which the soul becomes anæsthetized as it were, but a state of knowing, and the effort and the sputtering of questioning and searching is passed. The same gospel better expresses the meaning thus: "The bee buzzes so long as it is outside the lotus, and does not settle down in its heart to drink of the honey.
The moment she is free, the Bee drops to the ground and rolls about, like a mad thing, on the floor of the room. She resumes her flight, flops down again, turns over on her side, on her back, knocks against the things in her way, buzzes noisily, flings herself about desperately and ends by darting through the open window in headlong flight. What does it all mean?
Even the days of the Cherry Tavern and the Ponkapoag Inn were past and the poet Aldrich and other people of latter-day renown had not appeared to make it famous. Now the trolley car buzzes up and down the long steep slopes of Ponkapoag Hill and the automobiles honk in endless procession both ways.
In time and as certainly as the grub turns in due season into the winged plague who buzzes and fly-blows the little reciting bore turns into the dramatic or theatric acting, reading, singing, recitative and finally into the everlasting-quotation-loving bore Greek, Latin, and English. The everlasting quotation-lover doats on the husks of learning.
At best he is a mere feminine convenience a father or a cash secreter; until he wears out at last, buzzes softly into a grave. An Englishman of this type is a little better, would be more like one of these screw-driver, cork-screw arrangements a big hollow handle with all sorts of tools inside. Is this man a typical American? Does he need to be? What I want is news about us.
It buzzes once long and three short. Silence. Again the buzzer. Then from below his shadow blocking the light, comes ANTHONY, a rugged man past middle life; he emerges from the stairway into the darkness of the room. Is dimly seen taking up a phone. ANTHONY: Yes, Miss Claire? I'll see. It opens a moment later on the greenhouse in the sunshine of a snowy morning.
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