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High in the upper air the hollow booming of the night-hawk was heard at intervals, and the wild cry of the night-owl from a dead branch, shouting to its fellow, woke the silence of that lonely river scene. The old trapper stretched before the crackling fire, smoked his pipe or hummed some French voyageur's song.
"Ru-ru-ru-ru," he hummed louder than ever, and turning into the drawing-room, gave his hand to Laptev, and asked: "What good news have you to tell me?" It was dark in the drawing-room.
"Oui, c'est un rêve, un rêve doux d'amour," she hummed, as the hem of her outspread skirt just swept the ground. "Phew!" came a most terrible, dreadful sound from the thicket close at hand. Barbara dropped her parasol, and clasped her heart with both hands, and screamed.
Here John Bumpus paused as if to meditate on the full depth and meaning of these polite remarks, or to invent some new and powerful expression wherewith to deliver his fifth head. His mental efforts seemed to fail, however, for instead of concluding the sentence, he hummed the following lines, which, we may suppose, were expressive of his feelings as well as his intentions:
He walked away with a smile, whose amusement presently softened to an expression that would have amazed his business cronies. Later on he hummed the air of an old love song as he climbed the steep spruce road to Tom's. The Fillmore Elderberries "I expected as much," said Timothy Robinson. His tone brought the blood into Ellis Duncan's face.
"You have a queer way of showing your gladness," commented the other drily, shrugging her shapely shoulders. "Why, I can hardly keep still. La-la-la-la! La-la-la-la! La-la-la!" She hummed the air of a Viennese waltz song, meanwhile whirling gracefully about with extended arms, her dress floating about her balloonwise. "Oh, Alice! Don't!" objected her sister. "Can't help it, Ruth.
They were clad in town clothes; jackets cut with clumsy smartness, hard black hats, immense boots, polished highly. Their women all in simple black, with white caps and shawls of faded tints folded triangularly on the back, strolled lightly by their side. In front the violin sang a strident tune, and the biniou snored and hummed, while the player capered solemnly, lifting high his heavy clogs.
So I hummed the old lilt of the Leslies, whence, they say, comes our name Between the less lea and the mair, He slew the knight and left him there; for I deemed it well to show a good face. Moreover, I had some conceit of myself as a swordsman, and Randal was laughing like a foolbody at my countenance.
Even as he made a despairing, instinctive motion to perform these useless acts while Beatrice, deathly pale and shaking with terror, clutched at him the engine spat forth a last, convulsive bark, and grew silent. The whirling screws hummed a lower note, then ceased their song and came to rest.
Landys-Haggert singing to herself in the next room, while Hannasyde was waiting to take her for a ride, hummed, note for note, with a throaty quiver of the voice in the second line, "Poor Wandering One!" exactly as Alice Chisane had hummed it for Hannasyde in the dusk of an English drawing-room.
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