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after-strain of the second has a slightest descent to reflective feeling, from which there is a new rebound Now the latter sings in constant alternation with the answering strain, then descends in turn into the depths of sombre musing. A last romp is in polacca step on the tune of the Russian Theme. The title-page tells us that "the subject is taken from an Arabian tale of Sennkowsky."
Her sensitive lips quivered, and her breath came quickly as the orchestra played the varying movements of a grand sonata. Enraptured with the music, tears filled her eyes during the gentle adagio, and a bright smile chased away the tears when the next movement, a brilliant polacca, filled the hall with its tripping measures.
What would a pirate of these days, in his clean-lined polacca or arrowy schooner, have thought of such an instrument as this for the practice of his pretty trade?
On the First Mesa we find Walpi, Sichomovi, and Hano, the latter not Hopi but a Tewa village built about 1700 by immigrants from the Rio Grande Valley, and at the foot of this mesa the modern village of Polacca with its government school and trading post. On Second Mesa are Mashongnovi, Shipaulovi, and Shungopovi, with Toreva Day School at its foot.
It's not the warfare I like best of the two." "Both good, Massa Easy; suppose you no steal board of polacca ship, you not see Missy Agnes." "Very true, Mesty. 'Bout ship, Mr Oxbelly." "Mr Oxbelly not good for boat sarvice," observed Mesty, showing his teeth. It was dark before the Rebiera was anchored in the outer roads, a cable's length astern of the outermost American vessel.
My heart was torn, and I cried aloud: "Marie! Marie!" I heard a rustle. Polacca, quite pale, came from her hiding-place behind the clothes-press. "Ah! Peter," said she, clasping her hands, "what a day! what horrors!" "Marie?" I asked impatiently, "Marie where is she?" "The young lady is alive," said the maid, "concealed at Accoulina's, at the house of the Greek priest." "Great God!"
The speronara, as has been described, kept first to the northward; and after standing in that direction for six or seven miles, she eased off her sheets, and ran off to the eastward. After three hours a large polacca brig was seen from her deck a couple of points on her larboard bow. On this a small flag was run up to the end of her main-yard, which was immediately answered by the brig.
"Certainly," said the merchant, "though, as I said, it was nearly dark when he boarded us; but I should describe her as a rakish polacca brig, of about two hundred and fifty tons burden; and from what we learnt afterwards, we discovered that she must be the celebrated Sea Hawk.
When she learned that my father owned three hundred serfs, she exclaimed: "You see there are some rich people in the world and we, my dear sir, in point of souls, we possess only the maid Polacca. Yet, thank God, we live, somehow or other. We have but one care, that is Marie, a girl that must be married off. And what fortune has she? The price of two baths per annum.
I cried, with terror, "Pougatcheff is there!" I rushed out of the room, made a bound into the street and ran wildly to the priest's house. It was ringing with songs, shouts and laughter. Pougatcheff was at table there with his men. Polacca had followed me; I sent her in to call out Accoulina secretly. Accoulina came into the waiting-room, an empty bottle in her hand.
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