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Thyrsis found himself thinking of that most terrible of all ballads, "The Erl-King". How he had shuddered once, hearing it sung! "Dem Vater grauset's, er reitet geschwind!" All through the night he seemed to hear the hammer-strokes of the horse's hoofs echoing through his soul. The child lived through the night, but the crisis was not yet over.
It is short: it is not "worked up": in a few strokes, brief and telling as Donner's own hammer-strokes, the whole thing is done. Then the Valhalla music, glorified by a gorgeous accompaniment, is heard again, only interrupted by the wail of the Rhinemaidens below, sorrowing for the loss of their pretty, harmless toy. Wotan hears the cry, and passes on to feast in his castle.
"Morte di Angela Sovrani!" "La bella Sovrani! Assassinamento crudele!" The old man's heart beat in strong hammer-strokes, he listened vaguely, his tall figure shaking a little with the storm pent-up within him, till all at once as if the full realization of the position had only just burst upon him, he uttered a sharp cry "Her lover! Her promised husband!
And suddenly the trees and bushes swung giddily round the grass swayed beneath my feet and Charmian was beside me with her arm about my shoulders; but I pusbed her from me, and leaned against a tree near by, and hearkened to the hammer in my brain. "Why Peter!" said she. "Oh Peter!" "Please, Charmian," said I, speaking between the hammer-strokes, "do not touch me again it is too soon after "
None kept it more fervently, even in beleaguered Richmond, than pious Jackson in the Valley. Then, like a giant refreshed, he rose for swift and silent marches and also sudden hammer-strokes at Banks. Confident that all would now go well, Washington thought nothing of the little skirmish at McDowell, because it apparently disturbed nothing beyond the Shenandoah Valley.
Inside the workshop they whistle and sing to the hammer-strokes; there are times when the dark room sounds like a bird-shop. "Thank God, now we have the spring!" says Master Andres over and over again, "but the messenger of spring doesn't seem to be coming this year." "Perhaps he is dead," says little Nikas. "Garibaldi dead? Good Lord! he won't die just yet.
These doubters were the older men, who had had experience of England's craft in war. They knew of the ability of some at least of England's generals to match guile against guile, and back up guile with swift, unexpected hammer-strokes. There were men who claimed that what had happened in Jailpore would be repeated in Bholat and elsewhere.
"You understand business uncommonly well!" put in Elie Magus, smiling; "a famous saleswoman you would make!" "I want her to take me into partnership, me and my goods," said the Auvergnat, as he took La Cibot's plump arm and gave it playful taps like hammer-strokes. "I don't ask her to bring anything into the firm but her good looks!
Pelle did not lose heart; he must begin all over again, that was all. On the morning after the defeat was an accomplished fact he was up early. His resolution to go ahead with redoubled energies, he had, so to speak, slept into him, so that it pervaded his body and put energy and decision into his hammer-strokes. He whistled as the work progressed rapidly under his hands.
All this while the other door of the long Gallery Chamber was ringing under the hammer-strokes of Lennox and his company, and the town bell was summoning the citizens. Erskine and Ramsay now locked the door opening on the narrow stair, at which the retainers of Gowrie struck with axes.
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