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It was Elia. With a rush she was at the door, and the next moment she dragged the boy in, and was crooning over him like some mother over a long-lost child. But the boy pushed her away roughly. His calm face and gentle eyes now shone with excitement, one of those excitements she so dreaded in him. "Quit, sis," he cried sharply. "I ain't no use fer sech slobberin'. I ain't a kid. Say "
The memory of them, at this moment, affects me like the song of birds, and Burns crooning some verses, simple and wild, in accordance with their native melody. It was impossible to depart without crossing the very bridge of Tam's adventure; so we went thither, over a now disused portion of the road, and, standing on the centre of the arch, gathered some ivy-leaves from that sacred spot.
Let us have the story anyhow. Catholic indeed! repeated Dante ironically. The blackest protestant in the land would not speak the language I have heard this evening. Mr Dedalus began to sway his head to and fro, crooning like a country singer. I am no protestant, I tell you again, said Mr Casey, flushing.
For indeed there were three poor creatures kneeling now and crooning over the dead captain. The men had surrendered they had no arms to fling down and were collected in the waist, under guard of a cordon of Yankees.
As they followed the narrow, straggling path into the cool dusk of the woods, she began to sing. The crooning chant was as mournful as a funeral dirge. "The clouds hang heavy, an' it's gwine to rain. Fa'well, my dyin' friends. I'm gwine to lie in the silent tomb. Fa'well, my dyin' friends." A muffled little sob made her stop and look down in surprise.
Falkner searched among the flower-beds beneath the veranda and finally captured the fat puppy and carried him up to the boy, who hugged him as a girl would a doll, crooning to him. Margaret was still staring into space. "What has happened?" Falkner asked. She looked at him out of her deep eyes, as if he might read there what had happened. They descended the steps and walked away from the house.
And the young architect knew that, and in his heart was amazed at always finding her on the floor in a lake of lather, crooning as she scrubbed. "Martha," he said once, "you're a bird. I wish I'd met you when I was a baby." And she answered: "Don't be thrackin' mud into the study." And then, "Mister Cotter," she said, "if ye have a heart in your body, put it into the furnace flue.
Then every one put on its own warm things and took its place on the carpet. A sound of uncouth singing still came from beyond the trees where the copper-coloured natives were crooning songs of admiration and respect to their white-crowned queen.
So they went, toiling up; she singing all the way, and Paul sometimes crooning out a feeble accompaniment.
So he spent his nights in his room, crooning over the coke fire with Fred, or all alone if Fred were at the Academy, drawing from the cast. On these nights he would begin to long for Kennedy Square. He had said nothing yet about returning, even for a day's visit.
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