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"Well, sir, I'd be gettin' tired of that if I was you." "I'm almost done," said Prosper humbly. He stood up near her feet at the corner of the hearth, tucked the instrument under his chin and played. It was the "Aubade Provençale," and he played it creditably, with fair skill and with some of the wizardry that his nervous vitality gave to everything he did.
Perhaps Joan's musical faculty was less untrained than any other. After all, that "Aubade Provençale" was just the melodious story of the woods in spring. Every note linked itself to an emotional, subconscious memory. It filled Joan's heart with the freshness of childhood and pained her only because it struck a spear of delight into her pain.
"The acceptance of advice," said John Bulmer, "is luckily optional. I shall therefore go down into the village, purchase a lute, have supper, and I shall be here at sunrise to greet you with an aubade, according to the ancient custom of Poictesme." The wicket remained closed. "I will go to Marly, inform Gaston of the entire matter, and then my wife is mine. I have tricked her neatly.
The central love-poetry of Provence, the poetry of the Tenson and the Aubade, of Bernard de Ventadour and Pierre Vidal, is poetry for the few, for the elect and peculiar people of the kingdom of sentiment.
But I missed my little aubade from the lawn, and not till breakfast-time did I behold my small friends, who then came into the breakfast-room, one on either side of their mother two miniature sailors, exquisitely neat but visibly dejected.
RAIMBAUT DE VAQUIERAS. Aubade, from F. York Powell's version. You may read elsewhere of the long feud that was between Guillaume de Baux, afterward Prince of Orange, and his kinsman Raimbaut de Vaquieras. They were not reconciled until their youth was dead.
She answered him with a laugh that did not ring quite true. "It is the 'Aubade
It happened, indeed, to be the Pilgrim's March from Tannhauser that she fixed upon for her aubade. Jack would never suspect such singing, and Sir Basil must surely seize its opportunity. But he did not appear. She surmised that he was not yet up and that it might be wiser to wait for him in the dining-room.
They sit so much at windows, that pretty soon their eyes become windows themselves out of which the soul looks darkling, but preening; out of which it sometimes launches itself into the deep, wooed thereto or not by aubade or serena.
Here you ought to come, O restless Lovers, to behold your selves in these two darlings; you, who in your wooing are also possessed with jealousie, if you see that another obtains access to your Mistriss; or who, perhaps as wel as you, doth but once kiss the knocker of the dore, or cause an Aubade to be plaied under her Chamber Window: Look sharply about you, and behold how these Aubades decline, or whether it be worth your while to give your Rival the Challenge; or to stab, poison, or drown'd your self, to shew, by such an untimely death, the love you had for her; and on your Grave, bear this Epitaph, that through damn'd jealousie you murthered your self.
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