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"My young friend," answered Lysander, colouring high, "Percalus hath vouchsafed me as yet no occasion; and, indeed, she alone, of all the friends whom I left behind, does not seem to recognize me." His eyes, as he spoke, rested with a mute reproach in their gaze on the form of a virgin, who had just paused in the choral dance, and whose looks were bent obdurately on the ground.
There were times when the audience scarcely seemed to breathe freely, so strong was the spell, so vivid the reality of this saddest and most touching of narratives, as interpreted by this wonderful music. Never but once have I heard the perfection of choral music. It was one of the grand and solemn ancient hymn-tunes which are introduced at certain stages of this composition.
These stones, on which I was standing, then echoed all night to the tread of a closely-packed multitude a muffled sound, like the patter of rain among leaves. There rose through the long, dark hours, alternately, the unrestrained sobbings of the throng, and the grand choral of Luther's psalms, words and music of his own. Never since the world began was so strange a scene as that.
To those choral celebrations ladies go, just as they are accustomed to enter any metropolitan church; and after service they can take a turn in the gardens of either Society, without drawing upon themselves unpleasant attention. So also, unattended by men, ladies are permitted to inspect the floral exhibitions with which Mr. Broome, the Temple gardener, annually entertains London sightseers.
She began a letter which she did not finish: she had an attack of giddiness, and her head swam: besides, she was reluctant to speak of her illness, and was afraid of troubling Christophe. He was busy at the time with rehearsals of a choral symphony set to a poem of Emmanuel's: the subject had roused them both to enthusiasm, for it was something symbolical of their own destiny: The Promised Land.
"That I know," said Bach shortly. "And now it is the people they will not let him go," murmured the choirmaster despairingly. "Each Sunday he must play every motet and aria and choral and he is ninety-nine. Mein Gott!" The choirmaster wiped his brow. "It is a long life," said Bach musingly. A sweet look had come into his face, like the sunlight on an autumn field.
After a few vigorous bars of prelude, the scene opens with a tempestuous and very striking description of a sea-storm by the orchestra, with the choruses of sailors and Cypriots rising above it and expressing alternate hope and terror. After a short recitative the storm dies away, and the choral phrases of rejoicing end in a pianissimo effect.
'In her case, it is a necessity; but do you think she takes it? 'Oh yes, she has been taking choral. The conversation paused; the doctor went over to the writing-table, wrote a prescription, made a few remarks, and took his leave, announcing his intention of returning that day fortnight. Hubert said, and his tone implied reference to some anterior conversation, 'We are powerless in this matter.
Harewood led them all through the library, and was followed by the two boys to the sacristy; for though the celebration was not choral, all those of the choir who were present were always robed.
It was the most thickly settled part of Greece; it abounded in cities of historic interest, of which Thebes, the capital, was the chief whose walls were built, according to the fable, to the sound of the Muses: With their ninefold symphonies There the chiming Muses throng; Stone on stone the walls arise To the choral Music-song.
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