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Sylvia was aware that an insolent young man, with moist protuberant eyes, had come up where she stood there, alone, motionless on the public street. He put his arm in hers, clasped her hand in a fat, soft palm, and, "Allons, ma belle!" he said with a revolting gayety. Sylvia pulled away from him, cried out fiercely in English, "Don't you dare to touch me!" and darted away.
The very sight of her sister's carelessness and gayety, made Elizabeth feel how necessary it was to be composed; her husband was watching her still. Some one asked her to play; she took her seat at the piano and played one of her most brilliant pieces to sing, and her rich contralto voice rang out with new passion and power.
When the First Consul alighted from his carriage he appeared calm and smiling; he even wore an air of gayety. On entering the vestibule he said to his officers, rubbing his hands, "Well, sirs, we made a fine escape!" They shuddered with indignation and anger.
The very quality that sent Lila hurrying up-stairs in an agony of mortification because a senior had forgotten to bow to her, was the one that inclined her to enter into Bea's varying moods with exquisite responsiveness. It was delightful to have a friend who was ever ready to answer gayety with gayety and sober thoughts with sympathy.
Muriel adroitly folded her embroidered silk apron over a package of letters that lay in her lap, and affected an air of gayety at variance with her dim eyes and wet lashes. "I shall believe that conscience accuses you of many juvenile improprieties, since you so suspiciously attack my motives and intentions.
In spite of the gracious cordiality of Miss de Cardoville, there was always observable in her so much of that natural dignity which arises from independence of character, so much elevation of soul and nobleness of sentiment that Agricola, forgetting the ideal physical beauty of his protectress, rather experienced for her the emotions of an affectionate and kindly, though profound respect, which offered a singular and striking contrast with the youth and gayety of the lovely being who inspired him with this sentiment.
And from one of the groups came the sound of a voice a man's voice which Orme found vaguely familiar. He could not place it, however, and he quickly forgot it in his general impression of the scene. In this atmosphere of gayety he felt strangely out of place.
I don't know how you are to get it. I wish they would send for you to New York again." "I don't know that I should want to go if they did," said Fleda. "They don't raise my spirits, Hugh. I am amused sometimes, I can't help that, but such excessive gayety rather makes me shrink within myself; I am too out of tone with it.
"Come along, then; I'm your man," said Lance, gayly, extending his hand. She would not accept it, eying it, however, furtively, like a horse about to shy. "Hand me your pistol first," she said. He handed it to her with an assumption of gayety. She received it on her part with unfeigned seriousness, and threw it over her shoulder like a gun.
He was a musician of first-rate attainments, a member of the Schuppanzich Quartet, and occasionally acted as director of the Concert Spirituel of Vienna. Holz's gayety and light-heartedness helped to dispel the melancholy which had become habitual with Beethoven at this time.
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