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We had thought Chicago noisy, and so it was, but here the clamor was high-keyed, deafening for the reason that the rain-washed streets were paved with cobble stones over which enormous carts bumped and clattered with resounding riot. Bewildered, with eyes and ears alert, we toiled up Haymarket Square shoulder to shoulder, seeking the Common. Cornhill entranced us with its amazing curve.
There was a shrill chorus of laughter, which a deep, tragic voice interrupted with the question "What are you all so merry about?" and a figure, in bombazine and rusty crape, stood before them, which was hailed successively by three voices, a cracked soprano, Mrs. Crane a high-keyed treble, Miss Cynthia, and a little gasp or gurgle from Mrs. Brown, the lady in brocade, as, "Mrs. Linden!"
The clatter went on, and at last a luckless cup reeled, and rolled to the very edge of the table, and off it went! shivering into many fragments. This brought Mrs. Murray to the pantry door. "Well, I never saw anything like you for carelessness," she said in a high-keyed voice. "There goes another of that set! You were vexed, or that wouldn't have happened.
There came from the crowd the sound of a sad, high-keyed voice, drawling: "That's a nice vest Jim's got on, but it ain't hardly the feathers fitten for an ostrich, is it?" The editor's gravity gave way; he broke into a ringing laugh and turned again to the shell-men. "Give up the boy's money. Hurry." "Step down here and git it," said the one who had spoken.
In the sea of moonlit brightness this strip of trees afforded a margin of soft, almost sooty obscurity, save where here and there darts of light fell through the raggedness of the foliage. Finally he saw her. She was seated on a rounded bowlder and both her hands were pressed tightly against her face. Her pose was rigid and unmoving; an attitude of distress and high-keyed misery of spirit.
The señora searched for her, scolding volubly in high-keyed Mexican, so that Estan came lounging up to see what was the matter. Afterwards they all went to the house, and Starr knew that there would be real, Mexican tortillas crisp and hot from the baking, and chili con carne and beans, and perhaps another savory dish or two which the señora herself had prepared for her sons. Starr was hungry.
Through this crowd I made my way, along the well-built and well-lighted streets, as alive as by day, where boys in high-keyed voices were already crying the latest New York papers; and between one and two o'clock in the morning found myself comfortably abed in a commodious room, in the Oriental Hotel, which stood, as well as I could learn, on the filled-up cove, and not far from the spot where we used to beach our boats from the Alert.
Sometimes Gale felt that it was unbearable. Yet he made no effort to break it. Suddenly this dead stillness was rent by a shot, clear and stinging, close at hand. It was from a rifle, not a carbine. With startling quickness a cry followed a cry that pierced Gale it was so thin, so high-keyed, so different from all other cries. It was the involuntary human shriek at death.
You aided her to escape." Again the Professor burst into high-keyed laughter. He had risen to his feet and his eyes glowed like embers. "You are mad!" he cried. "You are talking insanely. I helped her to escape? Where is she now?" "She is there," said Holmes, and he pointed to a high bookcase in the corner of the room.
Wilbur staunchly held the roan, listened to the high-keyed drone of a reaper in a neighbouring field, and watched the old man make more figures in his black notebook. He liked this one of the Whipples pretty well.
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