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They 'muted' me," he amended, in deference to her own branch of the profession. "We came in by the side door about half past nine. It was a dull meeting. I listened for you. Somebody was playing." Cope gave a sly smile. "It must have been the poor disappointed woman who was to have accompanied me. She had had a list of three or four of my things to run them over in her own album, I suppose.

which she had set for him and the gentle invalid to the wonderful motif of the Song of the Master's Grail. Love and sorrow and a flood of tears had relieved a pressure somewhere, the balance had been recovered and her muted voice freed. And on through the verses to the very end she sang it, while the little group of field people held their breath in awe and amazement.

I cannot help admiring a beautiful and brave self-denying nature. It is one whom you must pity, and to pity casts you beneath him: for you pity him because it is his nobleness that has been the enemy of his fortunes. He lives for others." Her voice was musically thrilling in that low muted tone of the very heart, impossible to deride or disbelieve. Mrs. Mountstuart set her head nodding on springs.

Gregory Goodloe drew a little closer to me and bent his great gold head until his face was just off my left shoulder, and in his powerful, rich, fascinating voice, which he muted down in a way that made it sound as if he were singing through a golden cloud, he sang Tristan's immortal love agony in a way that shut out all the rest of the universe and left me alone with him in a space swayed by his pleading until my mortal body shook in actual pain.

They are as few as it's humanly possible to make, and they give us every advantage that can be worked out for us " "Failures at what?" "Operation Retrograde." Somewhere down the hall a buzzer gave a muted whirr. "That's mess call. And I'm hungry, even if you're not." Ashe walked away as if Ross Murdock had ceased to exist. But Ross Murdock did exist, and to him that was an important fact.

No longer a road-house on the incandescent road to dawn, there is something hangdog about its very waiters, moving through the easy maze of half-filled tables; an orchestra, sheepish of its accomplishment, can lift even a muted melody above the light babel of light diners. There is a cabaret, too, bravely bidding for the something that is gone.

"I could do with a whiskey and soda," Monk confessed feebly. "No, not you, please" as Liane offered to withdraw the compassionate hand "Phin isn't busy." Mr. Phinuit hastened to make himself useful. A muted echo of the engine-room telegraph was audible then, and the engines took up again their tireless chant.

In the end, we get our ten thousand dollars, and the flighty old General gets back his letters.... My dear," Mary concluded vaingloriously, "we're inside the law, and so we're perfectly safe. And there you are!" Mary remained in joyous spirits after her victorious matching of brains against a lawyer of high standing in his profession. For the time being, conscience was muted by gratified ambition.

They were no more audible than the tapping of the thrushes, or the little feet of darkness that ran towards him from the eastern sky. But they were there. The troop of Presences drew closer. They had been creeping on all fours. They now stood up. The entire garden was inhabited and alive. 'He has come back! It ran in a muted whisper like a hush of wind.

and is lost in the onrushing attack, furioso, of a strain that begins in murmuring of muted strings. Other phrases are merely graphic or incidental. But the Antar motive is throughout the central moving figure. The scene of the desert returns at the end of the movement. The ending is in long notes of solo oboe and first violins. There is no trace of the fairy queen throughout the movement.