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"I fancy," he said in half-voice, "that presently we shall see little flames issuing from their hair, as there used from the hair of the ladies in Werner's ballets." Then as Balator leaned toward him in his splendid leisure, fostering his charm, there came an amazing interruption.
The song floated in a zone of silence that lay above the deep-murmuring city. The voice was no more than the half-voice of a flute, sweet, gentle, beguiling. It told, as so many songs tell, of little earthly Love in the grasp of mighty Fate. Still she sang on, softly, as if loving the entrancing melody.
It is the basic consciousness of the blood, the nearest thing in us to pure material consciousness. It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep. The blood-consciousness is the first and last knowledge of the living soul: the depths. It is the soul acting in part only, speaking with its first hoarse half-voice.
Newmark thrust his gun barrels into one of the pails and with the hickory wiper pumped the water up and down. "He's a good snap-shot," Bobby heard a man tell a stranger, in a half-voice. "Has a brilliant style," commented the other.
Occasionally it was given in an absent-minded, meditative way, in a kind of half-voice, as if the happy creature had no thought of what he was doing. Then it was at its best, but one needed to be near the singer.
This child was the daughter of some custodian of the demesne before me. Suddenly, as she stood there in the moonlight, a song, sung at half-voice, floated down on the calm air. It was a ditty of old Provence, a melody I knew and loved, and if aught had been wanting to heighten the enchantment that already ravished me, that soft melodious voice had done it.
It was a pleasant hour, and Miss Vesta was well content. She liked even better the later evening, when the glow would fade from the west, and her lamp would shed its own path of gold across the water; but this was pleasant enough. "It is a very sightly evening!" said Miss Vesta, in the soft half-voice in which she often talked to herself.
To Hambleton, sitting absorbed, it was as if the circuit which galvanized him into life had suddenly been completed. He sat up. The singer's lips were slightly parted, and her voice at first was no more than the half-voice of a flute, sweet, gentle, beguiling. It was borne upward on the crest of the melody, fuller and fuller, as on a flooding tide.
At first he thought that it was a 'cello or the lower notes of a violin, but presently he became aware that it was a woman singing in a half-voice without thought of what she sang as women croon to a child, or over their work, or when they are idle and their thoughts are far wandering.
"So your chickens come home to roost, Professor," said the stranger, in a half-voice. "Impossible," declared the Professor, addressing the Hardscrabbler. "You misunderstood him." "They took my woman away. They took her to the 'sylum." Foreboding peril, the people nearest the uncouth visitor had drawn away.
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