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Ruth saw how constantly and how unconsciously Jonathan turned to see his own every feeling reflected in the missing eyes; how his hand sought another, even while its fellow pressed hers; how half-spoken words, day and night, died upon his lips, because they could not reach the twin-ear. She knew not how it came, but her own nature took upon itself the same habit.
The coincidence was too crushing. I bent down my head on my arms and cried silently, bitterly. I hated Jane in my heart for even suggesting it. Yet I couldn't deny to myself for a moment the strength and suggestiveness of her half-spoken argument. Not that for a second I believed it true. I could never believe it.
It had grown chilly, and Sarratt took Nelly's blue cloak from his arm and wrapped her in it then in his arms, as she rested against him. Presently he felt her hand drop languidly from his, and he knew that not the walk, but the rush of those half-spoken thoughts which held them both, had brought exhaustion. 'Darling we must go home! He bent over her. She rose feebly. 'Why am I so tired?
John Bull likes vividness and solidity of impasto; Jonathan's eye is often more pleasantly affected by a delicate gradation of half-tones. The one desires the downright, the concrete, the real; the other is titillated by the subtle, the allusive, the half-spoken. The antithesis is between force and finesse, between the palpable and the impalpable.
No; for his earnest looks and half-spoken words told all too plainly the nature of the interview. Dexie never could explain, even to herself, why she disliked Hugh so much; but his very presence seemed to raise up all the opposition there was within her. To a stranger, he would have seemed more attractive than Lancy Gurney.
Why the youth is so far from home at this early hour, and afoot why those uneasy glances over the shoulder, as if he were an escaping convict may be gathered from some words of soliloquy half-spoken aloud by him, while resting on the bank: "I hope they won't miss me before breakfast-time.
But the simple youth, ignorant of the language of libertinism, had never once suspected the fatal lapse from virtue of which Margaret Cooper had been guilty. He was too unfamiliar with the annals and practices of such criminals, to gather this fact from the equivocal words, and half-spoken sentences, and sly looks of the confederates.
Hale; and was touched by the half-spoken wishful entreaty that he would remain a little longer the plaintive 'Don't go yet, which his poor friend put forth from time to time. He wondered Margaret did not return; but it was with no view of seeing her that he lingered.
Often his brother would join him in a duet with his agreeable tenor. "Low praises and half-spoken thanks were murmured as the grave and gracious young friend, at the expiration of an hour, swung round on the piano-stool and attempted to make his exit." In his "Cheerful Yesterdays," Colonel T.W. Higginson has described the same life as an onlooker.
Closely observing diverse modes of utterance in daily life, he endeavored to reproduce soft, gentle words by half-spoken, half-sung tones, sustained by an instrumental bass, and to express excitement by extended intervals, lively tempo and suitable distribution of dissonances in the accompaniment. To him may be attributed the first dramatic recitative.
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