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Updated: May 16, 2025
How the patient lords it there! what caprices he acts without controul! how kinglike he sways his pillow tumbling, and tossing, and shifting, and lowering, and thumping, and flatting, and moulding it, to the ever varying requisitions of his throbbing temples. He changes sides oftener than a politician.
There was a blemish in the execution of the song, but to Alonzo it seemed an added charm instead of a defect. This blemish consisted of a marked flatting of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh notes of the refrain or chorus of the piece. When the music ended, Alonzo drew a deep breath, and said, "Ah, I never have heard 'In the Sweet By-and-by' sung like that before!"
I saw that I was too calm; so I walked the room a while and worked myself into a high excitement; but the book's next remark that the adventurer must get up at two in the morning came as near as anything to flatting it all out again. However, I reinforced it, and read on, about how Mr.
His instinct for the exact word is not always assured, and now and again he has failed to exercise it; but we do not find in his prose the flatting and sharping he censured in Fenimore Cooper's. His style has none of the cold perfection of an antique statue; it is too modern and too American for that, and too completely the expression of the man himself, sincere and straightforward.
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