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There was a sadness and pathos in the forester's voice that went straight to the heart of the forest maiden. The hand was on his arm again, fluttering, trembling. "I have been very wicked!" The fluty notes of a sweet voice were broken. "Who says so?" demanded Johnnie harshly and loudly. "I do; you do." "I do not!" "But I have hurt you." "Why shouldn't you do so, if it pleases you?
"It is not a hoax!" cry I, scornfully, standing scarlet and deeply ashamed, facing them all; "it is real, plain, downright, simple truth." Another pause. No sound but the monotonous, unemotional clock, and the woodpecker's fluty laugh from the orchard.
I forget what he said something about the matches not lighting properly, and afterwards as he talked he kept stopping the waiters one by one as they went by, and telling them about the matches in that thin, fluty voice he has. But, anyhow, it was in some such way we began our talking. He talked about various things and came round to games. And thence to my figure and complexion.
Her graceful gait, elegant figure, and dignified manner in general won the mummers to the opinion that they had gained by the exchange, if the newcomer were perfect in his part. "It don't matter if you be not too young," said Saint George. Eustacia's voice had sounded somewhat more juvenile and fluty than Charley's. "I know every word of it, I tell you," said Eustacia decisively.
When it drops off a note but you will not know it except the Douglas squirrel tells you with his high, fluty chirrup from the pines' aerial gloom sign that some star watcher has caught the first far glint of the nearing sun. Whitney cries it from his vantage tower; it flashes from Oppapago to the front of Williamson; LeConte speeds it to the westering peaks.
And yet quite comparable with this seems Kelley's device to indicate the oarage of the genie's mighty wings as he disappears into the sky: liquid glissandos on the upper harp-strings, with chromatic runs upon the elaborately divided violins, at length changed to sustained and most ethereally fluty harmonics. It is very ravishment.
Lack of definite knowledge was little Lucy's rock of refuge in time of need. She would look adorable, and say in her timid little fluty voice, "I don't know." The last word came always with a sort of gasp which was alluring. All the listening boys were convinced that little Lucy loved them all individually and generally, because of her "I don't know."
Her graceful gait, elegant figure, and dignified manner in general won the mummers to the opinion that they had gained by the exchange, if the newcomer were perfect in his part. "It don't matter if you be not too young," said Saint George. Eustacia's voice had sounded somewhat more juvenile and fluty than Charley's. "I know every word of it, I tell you," said Eustacia decisively.
He chose one of those yellow stripes that had so attracted him. Horror! it was all buttercups and deil a cowslip. Nevertheless, pursuing his researches, he found plenty of that delightful flower scattered about the meadow in thinner patches; and he gathered a double handful and dirtied his knees. Returning, thus laden, from his first excursion, he was accosted by a fluty voice. "Little boy!"
Low on the shore the fantastic shapes of one or two tall cliffs were outlined black on the fine sparkling sand, tiny waves rose from the bosom of the calm sea, and cuddling together in baby ripples made bubbles of their crests, and broke here and there among the pebbles with low gurgles of laughter, and in the warm silence of the southern night the nightingales began to tune up their delicate fluty voices with delicious tremors and pauses in the trying of their song.
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