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Whispers about the court said, "Coroner." Some one bawled "Silence." The coroner fiddled with some papers, put pince-nez on his nose and stared about the court. He had a big, flat face. He stared about. "Is the witness Sabre in attendance?" The coroner's officer said, "Yes, sir." Some one jogged Sabre. He stood up. The coroner looked at him. "Are you legally represented?"
Maie loaded her boat with stones and went out to sea. The fiddler was with her, and fiddled so finely that Ahti and Wellamos and all the sea's daughters rose to the surface of the water to listen to the music. 'What is that shining so brightly in the waves? asked Maie. 'That is sea foam glinting in the sunshine, answered the fiddler. 'Throw out the stones, said Maie.
Solomon Macey, a small hale old man with an abundant crop of long white hair reaching nearly to his shoulders, advanced to the indicated spot, bowing reverently while he fiddled, as much as to say that he respected the company, though he respected the key-note more.
Had Cutty gone through life without looking at some woman as, last night, Two-Hawks had looked at her? All the rest of her life she would see Two-Hawks' eyes. Abysmal fool, to pit her wits against such men as Karlov! Because she had been successful to a certain extent, she had overrated her cleverness, with this tragic result... He had fiddled the soul out of her. But death! She sprang up.
And every time he heard Simon Screecher's unearthly wail he shivered so hard that his fiddling actually seemed to shiver too. Mr. Meadow Mouse inquired regularly whether Chirpy had hit upon any plan. And at last Mr. Meadow Mouse announced that he would have to think of one himself. So he sat down and looked very wise, while Chirpy Cricket fiddled for him, because Mr.
Again the driver climbed down, fiddled about for several seconds, then with immense deliberation approached and opened the door. "What's the matter? Can't you get on? Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?" she cried, ready to shake him. He shrugged his shoulders and blew his red nose on a huge filthy handkerchief. Then with an air of great philosophy he replied: "Ça marche plus."
"I am, and if you don't come in and let me out I can't take you with me to Moon Valley." "That's so. But I'm scared of the ghost." "Oh, so you're afraid, are you?" At this the boy flushed and fiddled with his toes in the grass. "No kid that's afraid could live in Moon Valley. He'd be scared to death in a week." "Are there ghosts there?" "There are no such things as ghosts.
However, the sin of playing for one second on the Sabbath was as great as that of playing all day; so, as long as he was in for it, he resolved to carry the tune to the end, and he fiddled away with a reckless vehemence. Presently he became aware that the music was both wilder and sweeter than before, and that there was more of it.
I fiddled all the faster, till the delight of the Frenchmen knew no bounds; and as a proof of their regard, some of them came up and actually almost hugged the breath out of my body, calling me a brave garcon, a jolly garcon and an ornament to my country. This fun continued till we made the land, about dark.
Strobo was in Calcutta to meet a friend, an Austrian, who was shortly leaving India in the Messagerie Maritimes steamer Dupleix after agreeable wanderings disguised as a fakir in Tibet; and to this friend was attached, in what capacity I never thought well to inquire, a lady who was a Pole, and played and sang as well as Strobo fiddled.
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