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I had resolved to make myself either a flute or a flageolet, whichever might prove easiest, and I accordingly selected with great care half-a-dozen of the most suitable reeds that I could find, and, borrowing his spear from one of my guards, cut them, taking care that they should be of ample length for my purpose.
Doris and Nebris each had her bed-room furnished to harmonize with her own coloring. I complimented both on their taste. In Nebris's room Agathemer spied a flageolet. "Do you play on this?" he asked. "Sometimes," she said, "but Doris declares that my music makes her melancholy, it's so dismal." "I'll play you any number of lively tunes," Agathemer promised, possessing himself of the flageolet.
I shall never have courage to tell my father; nay, most deeply do I fear he has already learned my secret from another quarter, which will entirely remove the grace of my communication, and ruin whatever gleam of hope I had ventured to connect with it. Yesternight Brown came as usual, and his flageolet on the lake announced his approach. We had agreed that he should continue to use this signal.
And so home to supper and to bed, after a little playing on the flageolet with my wife, who do outdo therein whatever I expected of her. 10th.
The children, with all of whom he had now become an intimate and a favourite, roared manfully in full chorus at his departure, and he was obliged to promise twenty times that he would soon return and play over all their favourite tunes upon the flageolet till they had got them by heart.
I can still see even at my age the deer on Tom-a-chrochair, and read the scurviest letters my enemies send me, but my trouble is that I cannot understand the flageolet." "The flageolet, your Grace," said MacIver bewildered. "I thought you spoke of your eyesight." "And so I did.
Simon MacTag-gart's songs, as I have experienced afore. The name?" "He never heard it," said Count Victor, "but it happens to be Montaiglon, and I was till this moment in the odd position of not knowing his, though we have a common friend." A few minutes later the Chamberlain stood before him with the end of the flageolet protruding from the breast of his coat.
Now the tale tells that all this while, near the gray hut in Dun Vlechlan, the earthen image of Niafer lay drying out in the November sun; and that gray Dom Manuel no longer the florid boy who had come into Dun Vlechlan, sat at the feet of the image, and played upon a flageolet the air which Suskind had taught him, and with which he had been used to call young Suskind from her twilit places when Manuel was a peasant tending swine.
He waved away the glass of wine handed to him by the flageolet, and bowed his head. He had no heart to drink. These details were not calculated to extinguish my curiosity. As the three ground out the music of the square dance, I gazed at the old Venetian noble, thinking thoughts that set a young man's mind afire at the age of twenty.
The Chamberlain stood near the door with his hand in the bosom of his coat, fingering the flageolet that was his constant companion even in the oddest circumstances, and Count Victor went up to him, the button concealed in his palm. "Well, you are for going?" said Simon, more like one who puts a question than states a position, for some hours of Count Victor's studied contempt created misgivings.
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