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The great sonorous drumming of the summer night was like the bruit of Time passing steadily by. Even in the soft eddy of the leaves, lifted on a drowsy creeping air, was a sound of discontent, of troublesome questioning. Through the trees he could see the lighted oblongs of neighbours' windows, or hear stridulent jazz records.
The prayer stopped abruptly, and, after a momentary silence, the dolorous wail of a small organ abetted a stridulent concourse of human voices lifted in lamentable song, a song in which they were desirous of being winged like the dove. The sound mounted in a grievous minor into the profound stillness, the peace, of the valley, of the garment of stars drawn from wall to wall.
The two gentlemen upon the housetop were leisuring away the time in the indulgence of a cigar, watching the water-fowl that swam and plunged on the bosom of the broad shallow stream, listening to the hoarse croakings of pelicans and the shriller screams of the guaya cranes. It was the hour of evening, when these birds become especially stridulent.
"Oh, Davy, you'll kill us!" laments the housekeeper, for the little orguinette is stridulent and loud. "He'll kill himself," says the cook. "He's not strong enough to grind that hand-organ. He eats nothing at all, at all." "Papa isn't here any more, but I take my medicine," the child says. The drug is weakening his stomach. "It is the only way," says Dr. Floddin, "to relieve his lungs."
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