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There was another half-hour to wait, another half-hour of a nightmare, which might drive me mad. At that moment I heard the distant strains of the organ, a sad harmony to an undefinable chant, the wail of a soul longing to break these earthly bonds.
After a sort of service on that rough hillside against the walls of the city, the procession winds on again to the shallow grave: a last chant, and the body goes into the earth, and is quickly covered. You may see them. But I have never seen a Moor give way to the slightest outward expression of grief.
Fin! your long story has nearly famished me," said the padre, as the laugh subsided; "and there you sit now with the jug at your elbow this half-hour; I never thought you would forget our old friend Martin Hanegan's aunt." "Here's to her health," said Fin; "and your reverence will get us the chant."
"See, 'tis larger; and I would think it near the village of Bethlehem." After a moment of silence he added, with a laugh: "Why stand we here and whisper, like a lot of women? Let us move on." Again he seemed to hear peals of song in the sky and their rhythm in hoof and scabbard. It put him in mind of that strange, mysterious chant of the old singer. Soon he drew rein, saying: "Halt and listen!"
The love of it mixes with their daily thoughts: they celebrate it even in the market-place: their street-minstrels excite charity by it; and high and low, young and old, male and female, chant Io paeans in its praise.
A hand was raised, and, as if by magic, groups of Gipsies, some sitting, some standing, some with the Gipsy fiddle, one or two with flutes, began a Romany chant in a high, victorious key, and women threw upon the fire powders from which flamed up many coloured lights. In a moment the camp was transformed.
So saying, Moses struck two fingers on the capstan after the manner of a tuning-fork, and, holding them gravely to his ear as if to get the right pitch, began in a really fine manly voice to chant the following ditty: Oh when de sun am shinin' bright, and eberyt'ing am fair, Clap on de steam an' go to work, an' take your proper share.
"Then it is just what I want," said Lilly, giving him his smile, "only I hope it isn't too " He took to waggling his head, his little kindly eyes illuminated with a sunburst of wrinkles and his voice a festooned chant of rising and falling inflections. "Sa-y, if you can't pay three-fifty, she'll make it three.
And then to renew to her my vows of love, and chant unceasingly her broken oaths! God! God! The union is dreadful and eternal! FERDINAND, the PRESIDENT. Ha! my father. PRESIDENT. I am glad to meet with you, Ferdinand! I come to bring you some pleasant news something that will certainly surprise you, my dear son. Shall we be seated? My father! PRESIDENT. What is the matter? Rise, my son.
“Democrates is a traitor!” The cry from the startled men rang through the ship. The rowers ceased their chant and their stroking. Themistocles beckoned angrily for silence. “I did not call you down to wail and groan.” He never raised his voice; his calmness made him terrible. But now the questions broke loose as a flood. “When? How? Declare.”
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