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There was a queer rushing of blood to his head, a dizziness, a great thrumming against, the drums of his ears, from all of which sprung, like lightning, the remembrance of his suspicions concerning her feelings toward him. "You are not worried, are you? Why, there's no danger, not the slightest. We've got them whipped before the fight. I didn't think you'd lose courage.
This thrumming went on for some time when all at once from a side entrance in the hall a bright, apparently winged thing bounded from the outer darkness into the centre of the hall, a woman clad in glistening cloth of gold and veiled entirely in misty folds of white, who, raising her arms gleaming with jewelled bangles high above her head, remained poised on tiptoe for a moment, as though about to fly.
There was a full moon in the heavens, the night was still, the air crisp with the tang of October in the north, and they were alone in the shadow of the "tabernacle." Lights gleamed in the little windows that stretched to the right and left of them. Far off somewhere in the dark, an unseen musician was gently thrumming a fandango on his Spanish guitar.
I put my hand to my mouth. "Nick!" I shouted. There came for an answer, with the careless and unskilful thrumming of the guitar, the end of the verse: "Thine eyes are bright as the stars at night, Thy cheeks like the rose of the dawning, oh!" "Helas!" exclaimed Hippolyte, sadly, "there is no other boat." "Nick!" I shouted again, reenforced vociferously by the others.
Meanwhile the ladies sat on a terrace, overlooking the court, where a stout fellow in broad green braces and blue breeches lay half across a wooden table, thrumming a zither, which set the groups in motion.
What could he give her to make amends? Pearls, travel, horses, other young men anything she wanted that he might lose the memory of her young figure lonely by the water! There! She had set that tune going again! Why it was a mania! Dark, thrumming, faint, travelling from the house. It was as though she had said: "If I can't have something to keep me going, I shall die of this!"
No more wind and gloom, he stood directly behind the pilot's web-sling, facing a vista-plate and rows of controls, just as he had stood so many times in the derelict. He had made it! This was the control cabin of the spacer. And it was alive the faint thrumming in the air, the play of lights on the boards. Ross pulled the cowl of his Foanna cloak up over his head.
"After all," thought the baron, as he passed into the principal room of the Blue tavern, and proposed the national song of "Rule Britannia," "after all, Avenel hates Egerton as much as I do, and both sides work to the same end." And thrumming on the table, he joined with a fine lass in the famous line, "For Britons never will be slaves!"
He had no courage left, and sat down supperless at his little piano, letting his fingers find soft painful harmonies, so that Noel perhaps heard the faint far thrumming of that music through uneasy dreams. And there he stayed, till it became time for him to go forth to the Old Year's Midnight Service. When he returned, Pierson wrapped himself in a rug and lay down on the old sofa in his study.
Forthwith she stript the harp half bare, and throwing a propitiatory bright glance at her audience on the other side of her, she commenced thrumming a kind of Giles Scroggins, native British, beer-begotten air, while Jim smeared his mouth and grinned, as one who sees his love dragged into public view, and is not the man to be ashamed of her, though he hopes you will hardly put him to the trial.
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