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Terrapin stated to Suzette in a shockingly informal way that Ralph loved her and would give her a beautiful chamber and relieve her from the drudgery of the glove-shop. They were passing down the broad, gravelled drive, with the foliage above them edged with moonlight, the mock cataract singing musically below, and the cocher, half asleep, nodding and slashing his horses.
The air was clear, and full of the scent of the pines and cedars, and the rumble of the rapids came musically down the canon. I lifted my head and saw an eagle sailing away to the snow-topped peak of Trinity, and then turned to watch the orioles in the trees. The hour was delightful.
His hair, carefully curled, scented and parted, was extraordinarily dark, contrasting sharply with the unusual pallor of his face. He spoke low and musically, with a slight foreign accent. Helen started involuntarily on hearing the sound of his voice, and a cloud passed momentarily over her face. It lasted only a moment.
He was lying on a soft bank of turf that sloped up to a huge fallen trunk, and warm, soothing winds stole about among the boughs, rustling the leaves musically. The birds were singing in increased volume, and, though his eyes were half veiled by drooping lids, he saw them on many boughs.
The man bowed and departed, and Sir Jasper Kingsland, Baronet, of Kingsland Court, was alone alone in the gloomy grandeur of the vast library; alone with his thoughts and the wailing midnight storm. A little toy time-piece of buhl on the stone mantel chimed musically its story of the hour, and Sir Jasper Kingsland lifted his gloomy eyes for a moment at the sound.
I sank upon the steps; every pore in my body was a fountain of cold sweat: "Have whom?" "Cecile." In some way as she went by it was made plain to us that she had said no. "Good-night," ventured both of us, timorously. "Good-night," she responded, very musically, but as if from a great distance. Ferry, as he passed us, called my name, and I started after him.
Toplady rose; she spoke a few words about her engagements for the day which had nominally begun, then kissed her friend on the cheek. "Don't think any more of it, May. It mustn't interfere with your sleep." "That indeed it won't, Mrs. Toplady!" replied the girl, with a musically mocking laugh.
Here it had made her talkative long after bedtime, and she hadn't yet found out just how few dollars stood between her and the poorhouse. I allowed her to sort papers for a moment. As she scanned them under drawn brows beside a lamp that was dimming, she again rumbled into song. She now sang: "What fierce diseases wait around to hurry mortals home!" It is, musically, the crudest sort of thing.
On the other hand, the farm-house, winning-post of the race, loomed up clearly, and, luckily, the road improved a little by becoming harder and descending gradually. On one side rose a willow coppice, in the trailing branches of which a musically rippling brook was running; on the other, the ruins of a barn, which a flood had demolished.
On the table behind them gurgled the shaded lamp, lighting their faces from the eyes downwards. "Now," said Mr. Skale, evidently not aware that he thundered, "we can talk quietly and undisturbed." He caught his beard in a capacious hand, in such a way that the square outline of his chin showed through the hair. His voice boomed musically, filling the room.
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