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But that did not deter me. For from my little garden I could often hear feminine voices not far off in the castle garden, and among them I thought I could distinguish the voice of my Lady fair, although, because of the thick shrubbery, I could see nobody.
Billy, left alone, was frightened, afraid of the darkness, of the voices outside, of what would happen and what she had done the simple, painful fear of the little girl with a bad conscience. Boris opened the carriage door again. "Come," said he, "we must get out, this fellow refuses to drive farther; they say the road is impossible, a bridge is smashed, and I don't know what all."
"It will tell me that I am doing right, and that I could not do otherwise." "And if success attends him and fame with its hundred voices talks of him, how will you think of him?" "As I think of Monsieur Thiers and Monsieur Berryer." "And Nais, who adores him and will probably say, the first time he dines with you, 'Ah! mamma, how well he talks! "
Under these circumstances the little advantage derived from empirical knowledge in modern Voice Culture is readily understood. So far as any definite record can be made, the knowledge of the voice obtained by attentive listening to voices has now been set down.
That's it... Where are you shoving to?" "Now, all together! But wait a moment, boys... With a song!" All stood silent, and a soft, pleasant velvety voice began to sing. At the end of the third verse as the last note died away, twenty voices roared out at once: "Oo-oo-oo-oo! That's it. All together!
I want to breathe air like you get in this house air that is filled with books, and pictures, and beautiful things, where people talk in low voices an' are clean, an' their thoughts are clean. The air I always breathed was mixed up with grub an' house-rent an' scrappin' an booze an' that's all they talked about, too.
The man then addressing the crowd was one who had from his first sentence moved his audience to an extraordinary degree one of those magnetic voices of the people which flames the word that is smouldering in every heart. He had used no cloak for his meaning, like the other speakers; but boldly attacked the Legitimists, the Monarchy, the titles and the privileges of the aristocracy.
The face and hands were half buried in a lacy texture, whilst on the brow was placed a label, "fillet-fashion," on which was written "The Thrice Holy," or Trisagion "O Holy God! O Holy Mighty! O Holy Immortal! have mercy upon us!" Chant after chant ascended for the repose of his soul. The deacon's deep bass voice rose ever and anon in leading fashion, the other voices following suit.
There was a noise of voices, and of a door shutting loudly, and being barred, and of men talking in the night. The 'Lord Nelson' had just closed, and the drinkers were going home. He had better ask one of these where she lived for he did not know the side streets at all. 'Can you tell me where Somerset Drive is? he asked of one of the uneven men. 'Where what? replied the tipsy miner's voice.
A sound from the shore caused Joe to struggle to his feet and begin hauling on the chain. Then he looked again, stopped and straightened up. There were three men coming along the beach, four, five. Joe dropped behind the rail and watched them climb over the rocks and halt by the empty dory. Then he heard the sound of low voices in a foreign tongue, and shivered.
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