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The suspicious duetto with the Utah chief was explained. Its innocence was made further manifest, by what came under my eyes at the moment. On the arm that was raised in gesture, I observed a strip of cotton wound round it above the wrist. A spot of blood appeared through the rag! "Ha! you are wounded?" said I, noticing the bandage. "It is nothing merely a scratch made by the point of the knife.
One little burn of my acquaintance, which runs through field and dell to join the Till, I have hearkened to again and again for hours, unable to break away from the spell of its ever-varying, yet constant music a sort of wilder, sweeter version of Mendelssohn's Duetto, with the voices of Knight and Lady alternating and intermingling amidst a rippling current of clear bell-like undertones.
Only a song, mademoiselle, answered he, which my master ordered me to give you, and to desire you will let him know how you like it: he says it might be turned into an admirable duetto, and begs you would employ your genius on that score and send it by me.
The truth is, that Karl had conceived a deeper design than either of his companions. It had occurred to him while engaged with his brother in that laughing duetto and somewhat to the surprise of Caspar, it had caused a sudden cessation of his mirth, or at least the noisy ebullition of it.
For five minutes or more there was nothing to interrupt this duetto of winds and waves, and Ben was beginning to believe he had been mistaken. It might not have been the voice of a man, nor a voice at all. He was but half awake when he fancied hearing it. Was it only a fancy, an illusion? It was at the best very indistinct, as of some one speaking in a muttered tone.
"PASTORA. You little birds attentive view, That hop from tree to tree; I'll copy them, I'll copy you, For I'll be ever free. "DUETTO. Then let's divide to east and west Since we shall ne'er agree; And try who keeps their promise best And who's the longest free. Let's try who keeps their promise best And who's the longest free."
"Kneel down, woman, kneel down," said the Refectioner and the Kitchener, with one voice, to Dame Glendinning, "and kiss his lordship's hand, for the grace which he has granted to thy son." They then, as if they had been chanting the service and the responses, set off in a sort of duetto, enumerating the advantages of the situation.
The evening breeze had begun to sigh, breathing perfume from the flowers and wafting their scents on its wings; and two nightingales were singing a lovely duetto in among the thick darkling leafage, in the tenderest accents of love-complaining. Albertine began, quoting from Fouqué
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