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For the first few hours they made night hideous with part-songs, catches and glees chanted with a volume of sound that in that confined place was simply deafening. Then the noise abated as one by one the singers dropped off to sleep. Presently silence fell, while the train rushed forward in the darkness bearing me towards fresh perils, fresh adventures.
Jeminy took the plow horse, Elijah, to the village to be shod. There the fragrance of wood fires mingled with a sweeter smell from barns and kitchens. As it was the hour when school let out, the yard in front of the schoolhouse was filled with children on their way home; laughing and calling each other, their voices rose in minor glees along the road, like the squabble of birds. And Mr.
Then there was another pause and at last down came the four-in-hands, with flashing lamps, and harness that glittered all over in the moonlight, and the fine in-time harmony of the horses' hoof- beats. There was singing too, from some of the turn-outs, glees and choruses came in a faint wild mingling that rose and fell and changed with the changes of the road.
The schoolmaster and the apothecary vied with each other in making speeches over their liquor; and there were occasional glees and musical performances by the village band, that must have frightened every faun and dryad from the park.
White?" asked Miss Bolton; "it has always puzzled me whether the Pope was obliged to confess like another man." "Oh, certainly," answered White, "every one confesses." "Well," said Charlotte, "I can't fancy Mr. Hurst of St. Peter's, who comes here to sing glees, confessing, or some of the grave heads of houses, who bow so stiffly." "They will all have to confess," said White.
Meantime, the claims of music could not be ignored: there were frequent rehearsals for the public concerts; lessons to pupils; the composition of glees and catches, and the like; the superintendence of the practice of the chapel choir; and the study of sonatas and concertos for public performance.
The roaring bacchanalian glees with which the pack-men set the melancholy sheeted woods aquiver might well send the ghosts out of earshot, presuming them endowed with volition. Suddenly Cuddy Barnett discovered that one of the pack-horses of his own especial charge was missing, a good bay with a load of fine dressed deerskins to take to Charlestown, then the great mart of all this far region.
'Do you sing, Mr Prothero? asked Miss Hall; 'all the Welsh are so musical that I think there are few who have not voices. 'I sometimes sing chants and sacred music; but I know very few songs, and those old ones. 'Perhaps you will take the bass of some of these old glees.
Mills the actress for the queen of the gipsies; and she gave us a famous good song, Rochfort, you know and then there was two children upon an ass damme, I don't know how they came there, for they're things one sees every day and belonged only to two of the soldiers' wives for we had the whole band of the Staffordshire playing at dinner, and we had some famous glees and Fawcett gave us his laughing song, and then we had the launching of the ship, and only it was a boat, it would have been well enough but damme, the song of Polly Oliver was worth the whole except the Flemish Hercules, Ducrow, you know, dressed in light blue and silver, and Miss Portman, I wish you had seen this three great coach-wheels on his chin, and a ladder and two chairs and two children on them and after that, he sported a musquet and bayonet with the point of the bayonet on his chin faith! that was really famous!
Long ere we had reached York Ferry I had found that there was much in common between the Scots trader and the Virginian cavalier, and the chief thing we shared was youth. Mine, to be sure, was more in the heart, while Grey wore his open and fearless. He plucked the summer flowers and set them in his hat. He was full of catches and glees, so that he waked the echoes in the forest glades.
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