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Gradually he felt the sweetening influences of the day and the place, of the merry sunbeams at play amid the leaves of the arbour, of the frank perfume of the honeysuckle, of the warble of the birds before they sank into the taciturn repose of a summer noon. It was with a reluctant sigh that he rose at last, when Kenelm said, "We have yet far to go: we must push on."
I have, however, seen so much of modern fashions, modern accomplishments, and modern fine ladies, that I relish this tinge of antiquated style in so young and lovely a girl; and I have had as much pleasure in hearing her warble one of the old songs of Herrick, or Carew, or Suckling, adapted to some simple old melody, as I have had from listening to a lady amateur skylark it up and down through the finest bravura of Rossini or Mozart.
"One more word and you get it!" "May I sing as I trifle with this frugal fare, dear friend? My heart is so happy that I should love to warble a few wild notes " He paused to watch his badgered victim dispose of a Martini. "I wonder," he mused, "if you'd like me to tell you what a cocktail before breakfast does to the lining of your stomach? Would you?" "No.
She had now forgot her throne and palace, and desired nothing for her, than her present peaceful retreat. One morning, as they were sitting in a little arbour at the corner of a pleasant meadow, on a sudden they heard a voice, much sweeter than they had ever heard, warble through the following song: A SONG.
"I had not heard of it, but if Bill does that he's more efficient than I thought him!" "I spose he's terribly in love with you?" "Bill? Oh, yes. We adore each other." "I didn't know. The Petticoats are all so thin " "Yes, a change is always pleasant." Warble gave her engaging smile. "Maybe. That Daisy Snow now she's so pretty and slender. Dr. Petticoat seems mighty fond of her."
"Ouch," remarked Warble, "you tickle. Try somebody else," and she drew her feet under her. "Me," exclaimed Daisy Snow, coming over and holding out her dainty right foot. "H'm," said Goodsport. "This line running from the Mount of Cinderella to the heel is the clothes line and denotes love of dress. This line crossing it is the fish line and shows you are incapable of telling the truth."
"`By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." "You like violets, then?" I asked. "I think you told me you did, though, before." "Yes," she said impulsively, "I love them, I love them, I love them!"
Warble made a face at him. It was one of her ways. "What's your address?" he asked. "You can ask the Boss if you really want to know." "Want to know! Say, you waitress!" Of the love-making of Warble and Big Bill Petticoat there is nothing to be reported which may not be read in any Satevepost serial, which may not be heard at any summer resort, in any winter garden. They were zoology and history.
Now and again Pierre could still hear the spring flowing behind him, with a music resembling the gentle warble of some unseen bird. And now the Baron again raised his voice, giving him the history of the Grotto at all times and seasons, in a pathetic babble, replete with puerile details.
On one occasion, when the male uttered this note, the female was just about to eat; she stood as if petrified, with head halfway down to the food, for two or three minutes. What I have called talk was a very low twitter in a conversational tone, on one note, not at all in a singing tone, like the usual warble or call. I have also heard it from wild bluebirds, when I could get near enough.
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