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Updated: May 7, 2025
It was pleasant to see how the singer brightened into confidence, as a child might, at the sound; the look of anxiety left the sweet face; the eyes danced; the yellow curls shook with half-suppressed merriment; and when the applause had subsided, and the thrumming of the old piano began again, there was an abandon in the rush of lovely melody which she poured forth, with delicate instinctive touches, fine cadences and joyous, bird-like warblings, never dreamed of by the composer of the old tune.
These appearances of half-suppressed rage were the more frightful because they were obviously caused by a strong effort to temper with discretion an almost ungovernable paroxysm of passion, and resulted from an internal conflict of the most dreadful kind, which agitated his whole frame of mortality.
With a half-suppressed cry, she recognized his form, seated in the opposite corner of the church, from the spot he had last occupied. "He shifts his place every time he appears," she said to herself. And now, being determined that other eyes should see him as well as her own, she touched the abbess' arm and whispered: "Pray look before the priest enters. Do you see him now?"
He followed her to the ground, poured into her ear a fine, half-suppressed warble, offered her a worm, flew back to the tree again with a great spread of plumage, hopped around her on the branches, chirruped, chattered, flew gallantly at an intruder, and was back in an instant at her side. No use, she cut him short at every turn.
"Sin enough," said Donald MacLeish, with a half-suppressed groan; "and God he knoweth, misery enough too. And it is no man's dwelling neither, but a woman's." "A woman's!" I repeated, "and in so lonely a place! What sort of a woman can she be?" "Come this way, my leddy, and you may judge that for yourself," said Donald.
"Yes, you may have the skirt," she said with a generosity not wholly spontaneous, as he waited expectantly for a reply to his request. "Ah, good!" he said effusively. "That is a great weight off my mind. And may I have Number Ten on your programme?" "Are you going to dance?" asked Mrs. Langdale, with a half-suppressed laugh. He turned upon her, grinning openly. "No. Fisher says I mustn't.
"I hope not, dearie; I think not if she will be content to take me for her teacher," Violet said, with a half-suppressed sigh, for she felt that she might be pledging herself to a most trying work; Lulu would dare much more in the way of disregarding her authority than that of her grandfather. But she was rewarded by Grace's glad exclamation, "Oh, mamma, how good you are!
She was in the drawing-room, and again the soft melody of half-suppressed music, scarcely audible, yet every note distinct, floated to his chamber, and the guest scarcely breathed that he might hear. There was something so plaintive, so melting in the tones that they saddened as well as delighted. How the heart can melt out at the finger-points when touching the keys of a sweetly-toned instrument!
Rapid sotto voce commentary and half-suppressed wordless by-play located still more clearly the English quarter. Animation flowed and flowed. Miriam safely ignored, scarcely heeding, but warmed and almost happy, basked.
In fact, within a quarter of an hour Lord Decimus called to him 'Ferdinand! and he went, and took his place in the conference for some five minutes more. Then a half-suppressed gasp broke out among the Chorus; for Lord Decimus rose to take his leave.
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