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Helena waited till the noise died down, then she repeated her horn-call. 'Yet it is very much like the fog-horn, she said, curiously interested. 'This time next week, Helena! he said. She suddenly went heavy, and stretched across to clasp his hand as it lay upon the table. 'I shall be calling to you from Cornwall, she said. He did not reply.
All day he hung round the cove, or upon the cliffs, with a brass telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire, and drank rum and water very strong. Mostly he would not speak when spoken to; only look up sudden and fierce, and blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about our house soon learned to let him be.
"There's an old darky preacher up at Richmond who says it does, and I'm sure I think more of his old fog-horn blasts than I do of your parrot tones. Ah! Si, this is the last time that I shall ever fool with good raw material. However, don't let this bother you. As I remember, you used to sing well.
"On board the sloop!" replied the voice which resembled the tones of the fog-horn. "Where you bound?" demanded the skipper of the Rosabel. "Belfast." "You are a long way off your course, then," added Leopold, with emphasis. "Will you come on board?" asked the speaker from the yacht. "Ay, ay, sir, if you wish it," answered Leopold.
When, however, McFudd stood in the corner of Miss Teetum's parlor like a half-scared boy, pulling out the fingers of Waller's kid gloves, an inch too long for him, and Waller, Fred, and my Lord Cockburn stumbled over the hearth-rug one after the other, and Oliver, feeling like a guilty man and a boor, bowed and scraped like a dancing-master; and Bowdoin the painter, and Simmons and Fog-horn Cranch, talked platitudes with faces as grave as undertakers, the expectant special guests invited by Mrs.
I have heard the deep roar of the ocean, and have listened to the screech of the typhoon through befiddled sails; I have shuddered at the savage yell of the hyena, and have grown cold, even in the tropics, before the tooting of the wounded elephant; I have heard the eagle rend the firmament and the midnight fog-horn ring the changes on eternity join them all together, and they will be still but as a village choir compared to the infinite and full-orbed bray of the highland bagpipes.
Racing-liners with twin-screws sing "The Turkish Patrol" and the overture to the "Bronze Horse," and "Madame Angot," till something goes wrong, and then they render Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," with variations. "You'll learn a song of your own some fine day," said the Steam, as he flew up the fog-horn for one last bellow.
I attributed it to the fact of our leaving for America in the near future and her good humor irritated me. My spirits were lower than ever. "You seem to be remarkably happy," I observed, fretfully. "What makes you think so, Hosy? Because I was singin'? Father used to say my singin' was the most doleful noise he ever heard, except a fog-horn on a lee shore.
We have found, for the first time in the history of ship-building, that the inward pull of the deck-beams and the outward thrust of the frames locks us, as it were, more closely in our places, and enables us to endure a strain which is entirely without parallel in the records of marine architecture." The Steam turned a laugh quickly into a roar up the fog-horn.
Its clammy touch darkened the stone facades of tall, silent buildings and left tiny wet beads on iron railing and grill work. Down towards the waterfront a yard-engine coughed and clanked about in the mist somewhere, noisily kicking together a string of box-cars, while at regular intervals the fog-horn over at the Eastern Gap bellowed mournfully into the night.
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