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Every now and then he'd sing out, 'Here comes one! And then, just as I'd give a jump, he'd say, 'No, it isn't; it's a porpoise. I thought from the first, and I think now, that it would have been a great deal better for us if that boy hadn't been along.
As one of her brothers, who was a good singer, entered the room, she asked him to sing 'Vital spark of heavenly flame. He attempted to sing, but there were tremors in his voice and he faltered in the midst of the hymn. 'Won't you sing for your dying sister."
It was his voice that Athribis had heard, and the same voice spoke on: "My children," continued the father, "our days on earth come to a close. Let us sing our twilight hymn, for now indeed our work is nearly done." Above the scornful tumult rose the four voices, singing the "Twilight," or "Candle Hymn," of the early Christians.
There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself. Was this really the quiet girl who had been so anxious to learn all he could teach her, or was it somebody else? Perhaps she had gone suddenly mad, and there was an evil spirit inside her.
I left long ago there, and here I spoke with his kinswoman, he not being within, but did not hear her sing, being not enough acquainted with her, but would be glad to have her, to come and be at my house a week now and then. He gone, I by and by found that the Committee of Tangier met at the Duke of Albemarle's, and so I have lost my labour.
Other triumphs were but preparatory to this ultimate triumph, and if she fell short of his ideal, he would take no further interest in her voice. However well she might sing Margaret, he would not really care; as for Lucia and Violetta, it would be his amiability that would keep him in the stalls. To-day her fate was to be decided.
A good lesson, I say," he repeated, as if he would not be supposed to consider it much of a sermon. But here the preacher recovered himself and summed up. "See how it comes: wanting to get every thing, you come to the bad and drinking. And I think I'll leave off here. Let us sing."
"You are good company and are fond of society?" "I am fond of society," said Dolly, "and I hope I am 'good company," "You don't easily lose patience?" "It depends upon circumstances," said Dolly. "You can play and sing?" "I did both the night I met you," returned the young person. "So you did," said Miss MacDowlas, and examined her again.
Gascoigne made no further inquiries, but went out with Jack and Captain Hogg, and on board to see the water got in for the bullocks. "Where did you pick up that air, Gascoigne? It is very pretty, but I never heard you sing it before." Gascoigne told him, and also what he had heard from Mr Hicks. "I am determined, Jack, to see that girl if I can.
"Thou wilt sing a different song anon," said one of the bachelors. "I tell thee he is hot against thee, and swears when he cometh again he will carve thee soothly." "Aye, marry!" said another. "I would not be in thy skin a week hence for a ducat! Only this morning he told Philip Mowbray that he would have thy blood for the fall thou gavest him.
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