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So Jefferson followed the under cook, the scullery boy went back to cleaning the knives, Susan, the parlor maid who was going through the kitchen with her dustpan and broom, hurried off with a backward glance or two, and Phronsie was left quite alone to hum her way along in her blissful culinary attempt.
Something in the sudden quiet cut through his absorption as the noisy hum of voices had not been able to do, and he raised his head. His eyes were starlike. "I'm so glad father told me what to do," he breathed. "It'll be easier now." Receiving no answer from the somewhat awkwardly silent men, he went on, as if in explanation: "You know he's waiting for me in the far country, I mean.
The sun beat upon it hotly, and it did seem as though the builders must have intended to make school as hateful as possible to the girls and boys who attended. The windows and doors were open, and a hum came from within like that of a swarming hive of bees. Janice went quietly to the nearest door, mounted the steps, and looked in. She had by chance come to the girls' entrance.
And there round another corner of wall he came upon an orchard all pink and white in blossom and melodious with the buzz and hum of innumerable bees. He crossed a little stream that had been dammed, went along a pond, down beside an irrigation-ditch that furnished water to orchard and vineyard, and from there he strode into a beautiful cove between two jutting corners of red wall.
"'The Pandavas then, uniting with the Vrishnis according to the usual formalities, together entered, O king, the city named after the elephant. With the hum of voices and the clatter of cars of that mighty host, the Earth and the welkin, and the firmament itself, became as it were entirely filled.
The wind had slackened somewhat, but now that we had reached so far out into the bay the waves were higher; they were the remains of the huge ocean waves which raged on the high seas, remains which, despite the adverse wind, made their way far up the fjord. Hrolfur no longer talked aloud, but he continued to hum quietly to himself.
Well, Sir, as I am no longer master here, may I ask the object of this interview?" "I have come to seek your interest in behalf of one who has fallen into the grasp of the Queen's officers." "Hum the amount of which is, that the cruiser in the bay has entrapped some careless smuggler. We are none of us immortal, and an arrest is but a legal death to men of your persuasion in commerce.
You'll see after the storing of them, won't you?" "Of course, Mr. Trevor." Mr. Spooner drove away in his little car, a much dazed man. Like the rest of Durdlebury and the circumjacent county, he had assumed that when the war was over Mr. James Marmaduke Trevor would lead his bride from the Deanery into Denby Hall, where the latter, in her own words, would proceed to make things hum.
For her the notes of the orchestra sounded through it all the voices of the singers, the hum of the house; it was all a spectacle and a play. Why should she not enjoy it? There was something in the nature of the girl that responded to this form of pleasure the legitimate pleasure the senses take in being gratified.
As I pushed forward, along the road that skirted the grain fields, and the familiar sounds of former days fell upon my ears the tinkle of the cow bells, the busy hum, that filled the air like the whisper of early recollections, wafted down through the airy halls of time made the scenes, trials and sufferings, appear but as a horrid dream, and I seemed to be just waking to reality.
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