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"Conrad," cried he, and his very voice had a joyful peal, like the chime of marriage-bells "Conrad, we must leave Vienna this evening. Let everything be in readiness. If we have not gold enough with our cousin's ducats, borrow more; but be ready to go with me at once. Stay I had almost forgotten.

Gusts in innumerable series followed each other from the north-west, and when each one of them raced past the sound of its progress resolved into three. Treble, tenor, and bass notes were to be found therein. The general ricochet of the whole over pits and prominences had the gravest pitch of the chime. Next there could be heard the baritone buzz of a holly tree.

She had no great desire to seek her room. From the street she had already noticed that the dining-room of the hotel was barely lighted and evidently empty. She had supper there, after which she grew tired and sleepy and, with an effort, went up the three flights of stairs to her room. As she sat on the bed and undid her shoe laces, she heard ten o'clock chime in a neighbouring church steeple.

And then, as they stood there, a step between them, there came almost like the benediction of a cathedral bell the soft, low tinkling chime of the half-hour bell in Aldous' watch! It struck him like a blow. Every muscle in him became like rigid iron, and his torn hands clenched tightly at his sides.

Every one was armed either with threshing-flails or rakes or hoes; some even bore scythes, carried upright; for they had not only come to look on, but to make an end of the man-wolf. Again was heard the chime of the matin-bells of the convent of Ruiz, and immediately a smothered cry ran from group to group, "Wolf! wolf! wolf!"

The bell of the church across the harbor was ringing dreamily sweet. The mellow chime drifted through the dusk to mingle with the soft spring-moan of the sea. Captain Jim's mayflowers added the last completing touch to the charm of the night. "I haven't seen any this spring, and I've missed them," said Anne, burying her face in them.

In spite of the sunshine it was very cold, and when the three met again their noses looked like the eldest Miss Pecksniff's, 'as if Aurora had nipped and tweaked it with her rosy fingers. Subsiding into their places with pale, excited faces, they went silently on for a long time, with no sound but the chime of the bells on the horses who were covered with a light hoar-frost.

You will be quite young in time if you go on." The Boy grinned in his peculiar way, and then got up and began to walk about the room. The Tenor thought from the expression of his face that he was meditating mischief; but before he had time to put it into effect the big bell boomed above them, striking the hour, and then came the chime. The Boy hated the chime.

It's for Miles Chandon, if you know 'im." "Surely," the old man answered slowly. "Yes, surely Sir Miles. But who can have a message for Sir Miles?" "For Miss Sally, then. You know Miss Sally?" The old man's look changed in a moment. "Miss Sally? Why o' course Do we know Miss Sally?" he was appealing to the crew of men and maidens forward, and they broke into a chime of laughter.

Other people liked the idea of the chime, but were not content with its arrangement; if it had been set in another way, you know, it would have be so different, they asserted, with as much emphasis as if there were wisdom in the words.