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She was a great reader and student, but it was not till after her death that my father became one. The poor lady was fond of bringing her books to the cove, and pursuing her studies or meditations with the sound of the sea's chime in her ears.
Towards half past six each evening came a "gasgacha" of bells a cascade of tumbling chimes, mounting from the city below and falling back chime on chime. After listening to them on the fourth day he said suddenly: "I'd like to be back in England, Mum, the sun's too hot." "Very well, darling. As soon as you're fit to travel." And at once he felt better, and meaner.
The new girl went timidly into the hall. The chime of distant laughter still came from the room where the new arrivals were eating their evening meal, evidently under little discipline on this first night. There seemed to be no real "greeny" but herself about. She saw several girls pass and repass at the far end of the hall, and others mounted the staircases; but at first nobody spoke to Nancy.
Her voice was like a chime of contralto bells. It made him think of Bernhardt. It imparted to the commonplaces she uttered a quite disproportionate intensity of drama and tragic depth. The way in which she had said, "Oh, no," reverberated in his memory as though the sound still lingered on the air. "I don't know at all," he commenced. Then he smiled at his confusion.
"Thank you thank you," she replied; "your voice does not ring the cuckoo chime of compliment, but speaks like that of one who knows to what he pledges himself.
Peter's, thus seen by night when wrapped in silence and darkness! But suddenly the clock struck ten with so slow and loud a chime that never, so it seemed, had more solemn and decisive an hour rung out amidst blacker and more unfathomable gloom. All Pierre's poor weary frame quivered at the sound as he stood motionless in the centre of the expanse.
It is the chime, the hour draws near When you and I must sever; Alas, it must be many a year, And it may be for ever! How long till we shall meet again! How short since first I met thee! How brief the bliss how long the pain For I can ne'er forget thee. You said my heart was cold and stern; You doubted love when strongest: In future days you'll live to learn Proud hearts can love the longest.
'Some lamb's at stake when the wolves are prowling, he added: ''Tis now two hours to the midnight. I doubt if our day's work be over till we hear the chime, friend. 'What interest do you take in the people of this house that you watch over them thus? asked Farina. The stranger muffled a laugh in his beard. 'An odd question, good sooth.
In the centre of the hamlet stood the parish church, and its little Gothic tower, from which at present was heard the Sunday chime of bells.
"Den all de week will be as gay As am de Chris'mas time; We'll dance all night and all de day, And make de banjo chime And make de banjo chime, I tink, And pass de time away, Wid 'nuf to eat and nuf to drink, And not a bit to pay! So shut your mouf as close as deafh, And all you niggas hole your breafh, And make de banjo chime."
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