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The Psalms are chanted and hymns sung in parts, and always in admirable tune, by the congregation. 'Immediately after service clinks out the breakfast bell, and, with marvellous promptitude and punctuality, whites and blacks, lay and clerical, are seen flocking to the mess-room.
She clutched some of the shining pieces, and held them up to the three men as they stood silently beside the bed, but her hands trembled so that sovereigns kept falling from them on the floor with metallic clinks. "All mine all mine," she shrieked, loudly.
The gentle heart was ruffled amid its joy by the thought of its own unworthiness. "Repent it! I feel that I am a saved man. You do not know how degrading this city life is, how debasing, and yet how absorbing. Money for ever clinks in your ear. You can think of nothing else. From the bottom of my heart I hate it, and yet how can I draw back without bringing grief to my dear old father?
Accustomed to converse with people who constantly pull one up short with an 'Ah, now I don't agree, or 'There, I think you are quite wrong, it is wonderfully soothing to discuss things with someone who has the air of being convinced by one's arguments. It is weak, I know, but I'm afraid I agree with Mrs. M'Cosh, who described a friend as 'a rale nice buddy. She clinks wi' every word ye say.
Certainly the instant I kissed her she remembered the latter. She trembled against me, and leaving unsaid something she had meant to say, she slipped out of my arms and ran. She assuredly was frightened, and I thought it just as well that she was. Presently she disappeared in the darkness and then the swift little clinks of her spurs ceased.
And he again tugged at the door handle. "The devil take her! there's nothing to be done but to go." "Wait!" suddenly exclaimed the young man, "look! do you notice how the door resists when we pull it?" "Well, what then?" "Why, that shows that it's not locked, but bolted! Hark how it clinks!" "Well?" "Don't you understand? That shows that one of them must be at home.
In a corner, against the salt-house, by the light of a fire, a group is gathered round a blanket spread on the ground, with little piles of silver before them, over the always-absorbing monte; and other groups are very harmlessly singing. By midnight the music dies away and the dancing ceases, but the sombreros bend over the monte blanket and the silver clinks on it till morning.
The pair return to the crypt, Durdles falls asleep, dreams that Jasper leaves him, "and that something touches him and something falls from his hand. Then something clinks and gropes about," and the lines of moonlight shift their direction, as Durdles finds that they have really done when he wakens, with Jasper beside him, while the Cathedral clock strikes two.
She plucks the rose of poetry from her breast and sets it in the ale-can's spout; clinks with the lid, sings about the clang of the hunting horn, about breeches and old shoes and all manner of stuff. Yet we are sensible that he is a true poet; we see two human eyes shining, that announce to us the human heart's sadness and hope. All the apple-trees in the garden had sprung out.
And he again tugged at the door handle. "The devil take her! there's nothing to be done but to go." "Wait!" suddenly exclaimed the young man, "look! do you notice how the door resists when we pull it?" "Well, what then?" "Why, that shows that it's not locked, but bolted! Hark how it clinks!" "Well?" "Don't you understand? That shows that one of them must be at home.
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