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As you say, it can harm nobody to get the right meter." "There's that old commercial station up the Cape," announced Dick, presently. "That fellow is always on the job at this hour." "Probably he has to be, poor soul," Walter returned. "We'll get rid of him in a minute. What was that?" "It is some one on our line. That's the Siren's call. It's O'Connel! Jove! What are you doing, man?
The music of this single word stirred the girl's heart like a message and blessing from heaven, like the sweetest harmony of the siren's song, like the word of acquittal from a judge's lips when the verdict is life or death, and her lips were already parted to say 'Publius' in a tone no less deep and heartfelt-but, with all the force of her soul, she restrained herself, and said softly and quickly: "You are here at a late hour, and it is well that you have come."
'Friend' is not the throne I aspire to, but it is the road that leads to it. So then, let it be 'friend, while waiting for better. This word is very pleasant to hear when spoken in these siren's accents, and when at the same time the eyes say 'lover!" "Will you always love me thus?" Octave asked, whose face beamed with virtuous pledges.
But the wilderness has a siren's power over the Anglo-Saxon always. The strange savage land was splendid even in its silent level sweep of distance. When I was a boy I used to think that the big cottonwood beyond the West Draw was the limit of human exploration. It marked the world's western bound for me.
Your voice is like a siren's, your hands command respect and love. Ah! that arm! place bracelets upon it, and how pleasingly it would rest upon the velvet of a robe! Your locks are chains which would fetter all men. And you could lay all your triumphs at Adolphe's feet, show him your power and never use it. Then he would fear, where now he lives in insolent certainty. Come! To action!
If he could only keep himself firmly in hand during those next four days, all would be well. Once safely anchored in the harbor of his sister's eminently proper English circle, the song of the siren would doubtless fade away, and he would thank Heaven fervently for his miraculous escape. Meanwhile he listened with increasing impatience for the first flutter of the siren's wings,
The man had more than his share of that peculiar susceptibility which is one of the characteristics of his countrymen susceptibility to immediate impulse susceptibility to fleeting impressions. It was a key to many mysteries in his character when he owned his subjection to the influence of music, and in music recognised not the seraph's harp, but the siren's song.
"Thank you. Good-night," said Donald mechanically, as he replaced the receiver. Through the partly open folding door he could dimly see that enticing bed, with his pajamas and bath robe laid across it. It seemed to him as though it were calling to his weary body with a siren's voice, or had suddenly acquired the properties of the cup of Tantalus. He hesitated, and moved a step toward it.
Orators, such as Pericles, never moved me in this way never roused my soul to the thought of my servile condition: but this man makes me think that life is not worth living so long as I am what I am. Even now, if I were to listen, I could not resist. So there is nothing for me but to stop my ears against this siren's song and fly for my life, that I may not grow old sitting at his feet.
'Friend' is not the throne I aspire to, but it is the road that leads to it. So then, let it be 'friend, while waiting for better. This word is very pleasant to hear when spoken in these siren's accents, and when at the same time the eyes say 'lover!" "Will you always love me thus?" Octave asked, whose face beamed with virtuous pledges.
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