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Then, tucking it more closely beneath his chin, he began to play a broken, fitful melody of haunting sadness, tormented by despairing chords, swept hither and thither by rushing minor cadences the very spirit of pain itself, wandering, ghost-like, in desert places. Upstairs Judson turned heavily in his bed. "Just hark to 'im, Maria," he muttered uneasily.
Among the results of the coming of the Comforter is an increase in warm personal love for Jesus. Conversion drops a coal into the breast; the fuller grace fans it into a flame. There is a place in experience where Christ's voice sets the whole being vibrating. The soul is so in tune with Him that the cadences of His tones fill the soul with a tremor of glee and gladness.
A gaunt man, who towered high, and whose tongue held the cadences of the wide spaces, had slipped this dollar into the receptive hand of the dummy-chucker. True, it was almost a fortnight ago, and the man might have gone back to his Western home but Broadway had yielded him up to the dummy-chucker. Broadway might yield up such another. At Union Square, the dummy-chucker turned north.
"What, Roderick! does the muse desert thee? or is memory getting dull? You see the child is wilful in his melody, and must sing of loves and sunshine or he fails. Now touch us a stronger chord my men, and put life into your cadences, while I troll a sea air for the honour of the ship."
The forms of their friends fast lessened in the distance, and at last their boat looked like a speck on the wave, and the sweet cadences of that beautiful song faintly rolling along to their hearing, like the sigh of an angel, were the last sounds that reached them, from the home of civilization.
If the preliminary work in cadences, dominant sevenths, &c. has been conscientiously done in all keys there will be no difficulty in extemporizing a sung melody, which modulates, and adding a simple accompaniment at the piano. Other chords can now be added, and the children will be ready to extemporize short tunes, entirely at the piano, without the aid of the voice.
It was a voice of power, splendid in some way I cannot describe, and with a certain sense of majesty in its cadences, and, as I listened to it with quickly beating heart, I could fancy it was some ancient voice of Time itself, echoing down immense corridors of stone, from the depths of vast temples, from the very heart of mountain tombs.
I do not speak of mere copyist's work, the parasitic knack of retailing cast phrases, tricks and turns of accent, cadences and catchwords proper only to the natural manner of the man who first came by instinct upon them, and by instinct put them to use; I speak of that faithful and fruitful discipleship of love with which the highest among poets and the most original among workmen have naturally been always the first to study and the most earnest to follow the footsteps of their greatest precursors in that kind.
The universe crashed and bellowed. Stern felt a heavy dash of brine cold, strangling, irresistible. All grew black. "Death!" thought he, and knew no more. Consciousness won back to Allan Stern how long afterward he could not tell under the guise of a vast roaring tumult, a deafening thunder that rose, fell, leaped aloft again in huge, titanic cadences of sound.
Such were the features that the painter was swiftly putting upon his canvas; but behind them Adam Lux discerned the soul for which he gladly sacrificed both his liberty and his life. He forgot his surroundings and seemed to see only that beautiful, pure face and to hear only the exquisite cadences of the wonderful voice.
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