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"You ought to show me the door today; but I don't believe you know!" The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
Bred up amid the stately, measured, melodious platitudes of the eighteenth century, that Golden Age of commonplace, he struck down through them all with simple, untaught, unconscious directness, and smote the spring of ever-living waters. Such wood-notes wild as trill in Shakspeare's verse sprang from the stricken chords beneath his hand.
I fared no better than you, so my fellow-feeling made me sympathise with you, though I had no spirit to try again." Mollie laughed under her breath, the influence of her surroundings instinctively subduing the usual merry trill. This Mr Melland was an unexpectedly pleasant companion, now that his former gloom and irritability of manner had disappeared.
Dinah's voice had always held countless inflections, little notes gay or sad like the trill of a robin. This was the voice of a woman in whom the very last spark of hope was quenched. It pierced him with an intolerable pain. "Dinah Dinah!" he said. "For God's sake, child, you don't mean that!" Her white, pinched face twisted in a dreadful smile. "Why not?" she said. "There was no other way."
Then of a sudden she dropped to the floor with her head against the box and sobbed disconsolately. Adam gave a howl and crowded into her lap and Lydia hugged him but wept on. The late afternoon sun sifted through the dusty attic window on her yellow head. Somewhere near the window a robin began to trill his vesper song. Over and over he sang it until at last Lydia heard and raised her head.
But all at once Philip's eyes brightened, and he started up as though touched by the wire of an electrical machine. "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph, wuph!" sounded upon the clear night air. "Trill lill lill lill chug chug chug chug chug!" rang out the sweet notes of a nightingale close by; and then again "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph, wuph!" from a dog apparently not far off.
And hardly had he repeated that the third time, when she appeared at her window, and before all Riseholme called out "Georgie!" with a trill at the end, like a bird shaking its wings. Before all Riseholme! So in he went. Had Lucia known that, it would quite have wiped the gilt off Lady Ambermere's being refused admittance.
She lay vaguely listening to the gay trill of a robin on the terrace below, dreading the moment when the dull ache at her heart should turn to active pain. A cheery whistle on the gravel under her windows roused her at last. She took up her burden again with a great sigh. "O God!" she whispered, as she turned her heavy head upon the pillow, "do let me die soon do let me die soon!"
The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished. Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so I had my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest.
"And Nan's great-grandmother. Kitty, is it wise?" "Extreme measures are sometimes necessary. He and she will hit it off together at once, I know." As Kitty finished speaking there came a trill at the front-door bell, followed a minute later by a masculine knock on the door. "Come in," cried Penelope. The door opened to admit a tall, fair man who somehow reminded one of a big, genial Newfoundland.
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