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Not until then did he observe that a tall, thin stranger stood beside him; and that he was fiddling too, composing a second to Joost's air, as if he could read his thought before he put it into execution on the strings. Joost paused, and the stranger did likewise. "Where de debble did you come frum?" asked the first. The other smiled. "And how did you come to know dat music?" Joost pursued.
"I'm sure I don't know, Mr. Oakley," the woman answered, smiling. "You really didn't expect me to, did you?" The Ranger laughed. "Did she take gun, basket, rod or violin? If I know whether she's gone shooting berrying, fishing or fiddling, it may give me a clue or did she take all four?" The woman watched him closely. "She took only her violin.
And we were just in the gayest centre of it all, "whin, och, what a pity! this fine tay-party was suddenly broken up," as Patrick O'Flanegan remarked when he was dancing with the chairs to the devil's fiddling, and his wife entered. That this irruption of the enemy gave a taci-turn to our riotry and revelling will be believed.
On this occasion, with appearances so against him, perplexed but not convinced, after looking for a few moments he went below and sought communion with his beloved instrument; nor did the fading of the phantasm interrupt his fiddling. When announced, he listened absently, and continued his aria unmoved by such trivialities.
He knew that she was taking violin lessons: he had often heard her screechy fiddling on the stairs and out in the hall. He fixed his eyes on her, and exclaimed: “Well I’m a son-of-a-gun if there isn’t Döderlein’s daughter! How did you get here? Aha, you are going about and showing the people what you can do! I should think you and your creator would have had enough of music by this time.”
Zig-a-zig-a-zig, how it makes you quake, As you hear the bones of the dancers shake. But hist! all at once they vanish away, The cock has hailed the dawn of day. The magic midnight strokes sound clear and sharp. In eager chords of tuned pitch the fiddling ghost summons the dancing groups, where the single fife is soon followed by demon violins.
Miss Becky Franks was talking of it to the Shippens." Madam Wetherill sighed a little. Already the quiet streets of the town had taken on a new aspect. There were fiddling and singing in many of the decorous old taverns. Men were shouting Tory broadsides of ridiculous verse; selling places for the races, when Tarleton was to ride, as that was sure to draw crowds, or hawking tickets for plays.
It seems to me as if the sound of the fiddling, of the pounding, scampering feet would never, never end. I believe, at least I hear afterward, that Mr.
There is one house in Dover Street, where, behind a dirty curtain, such figures may be seen hopping every night, to a perpetual fiddling; and I have stood sometimes wondering in the street, with about six blackguard boys wondering too, at the strange contortions of the figures jumping up and down to the mysterious squeaking of the kit.
Such prolonged fiddling upon one string such multiform presentation of one idea! On this foundation he purposed to devote himself and a few disciples to the reform and mental culture of our criminal brethren.
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