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Then everybody'll be satisfied. We got to split up anyhow," Mac said. Bad Bill looked at Blackwell and nodded. "That's right. We don't all want to pull a blue streak. That would be a dead give away. Let the kids stay if they want to." "So as they can round on us if they're nabbed," Blackwell sneered. Cranston called him down roughly. "That'll be enough along that line, Lute.
"Oh, come on, Jedge; you don't want to be hard on the house," protested the man in the red sweater, waving his arms as frantically as a freight brakeman. "Say, you boys! don't ye git excited! The Jedge didn't mean that; you got him kind of het up with argufying.... Down in front, boys! You, Lute " But it was too late: half a dozen voices were shouting at once.
But what are they? not the modulated instrument we mean simply legs for leg-work, dumb as the brutes. Our cavalier's is the poetic leg, a portent, a valiance. He has it as Cicero had a tongue. It is a lute to scatter songs to his mistress; a rapier, is she obdurate. In sooth a leg with brains in it, soul. And its shadows are an ambush, its lights a surprise.
"Amiable!" cried she passionately "what do you call thus, ye friends? the bad, the wretched, the worthless of this world, with which we cover our naked misery as with torn purple rags from the worn out, faded wardrobes of former times, when there were yet clothes, and ornament and men? or has the world been always thus miserable?" she threw the lute from her as if it terrified her.
I can play the lute and know its gamut and notation and so forth. If I sing and dance, I ravish, and if I adorn and perfume myself, I slay.
I shall see a burning city and finish the Troyad," said Nero, setting aside his lute. Then he turned to the consul, "If I go at once, shall I see the fire?" "Lord," answered Lecanius, as pale as a wall, "the whole city is one sea of flame; smoke is suffocating the inhabitants, and people faint, or cast themselves into the fire from delirium. Rome is perishing, lord."
She seized her lute, she wildly threw her fingers o'er its thrilling strings, and, gazing on the rosy sky, to borrow all its poetry, thus, thus she sang thus, thus she sang: He rose in beauty like the morn That brightens in bur Syrian skies; Dark passion glittered in his eyes, And Empire sparkled in his form!
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good- day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. "And I," quoth he, and his voice was weary but not bitter, "I must go to work there is so much needed here, and food drops into no man's lap!
All day long the white birds fed upon the crickets, and when they left at night the harvest had been saved. Thus had Heaven vouchsafed a second miracle to the Lute of the Holy Ghost. It is small wonder then if his views of the esteem in which he was held by that power were now greatly enlarged.
Therefore having heard Zbyszko's question, he frowned, lifted his eyes as if he were trying to recollect, and answered: "Panna Danuta Jurandowna? Where is she from?" "Jurandowna Danuta of Spychow." "I saw all of them, but I cannot remember their names." "She is very young; she plays the lute, and amuses the princess with her singing."
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