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Then you pass a church; some shadow seems to glide across the way, and it is almost in dismay you glance up at the silent palaces, the colour of pearl, barred and empty; and then looking down see the great paved way where your footsteps make an echo; while there amid the great slabs of granite the grass is peeping.
The gleam of the chestnut-roaster's brazier at a street corner deepens the sense of an old adventurous Italy, and the darkness beyond seems full of cloaks and conspiracies. I turn, on my way home, into an empty street between high garden walls, with a single light showing far off at its farther end. Not a soul is in sight between me and that light: my steps echo endlessly in the silence.
Now this echo of Paddy Blake's, which has long been the admiration of the world, is not a prodigy unique in its kind; it can be matched by one recorded in the immortal works of the great Lord Verulam.
The luncheon was partaken of with more avidity by the others than by Dawn, whose mind was constantly reverting to the words which she had read. "Now for the story, Auntie," said Herbert, seating himself on the grass, beside her. "Do you remember the name of the nymph I am going to tell you about?" "Yes, it was-it was Echo." "Very good. I am glad you remembered it.
Roda was provided by the King with a secret programme of instructions for the new Governor's guidance and Don Sancho d'Avila, for his countenance to the mutineers of Alost, had been applauded to the echo in Spain.
As he turns from the door, there falls from above, as if some echo of it had clung to the high dome after all the singers had left, the strain: "Wise through compassion.... The immaculate fool...." The next change of scene shows the interior of the tower where Klingsor practises his dark arts.
The booming sounds seemed to echo back and forth from cloud to cloud, rumbling and growling as though reluctant to cease, but at length it subsided into momentary silence, only to burst forth with even greater violence a few seconds later as a second flash tore across the ink-black sky. "That is our signal," remarked Phil quietly, as he rose to his feet.
The longings, the regrets, the fidelity, and the tenderness of the people, find an echo in these airs, which have all the character of improvisations, and rekindle in the heart of the hearer the passions they were intended to relieve. We at last took leave of the good old man and his friendly household. The night was dark and rainy, and the magisters accompanied us to the inn.
"You do not mean that you are my " "I am nothing to you, sir, but the bearer of a letter from your dying daughter." "You cannot be the child of of Ellice?" After the long limbo of twenty-three years, the name burst from him, and with what a host of memories its echo peopled the room, where that erring daughter had formerly reigned queen of his heart. "Yes, Ellice is my dear mother's name."
"Then I promise it," he answered, with a slight tremble in his voice. But looking at him anxiously, she was not satisfied. His white face, firm and resolute though it was, had a certain despair in it which chilled her. The hopefulness of her words seemed to have found no echo in his heart. "Dearest," she whispered, "it will all come right."
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