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The hum and noise which hitherto filled the hall like the roar of the sea, immediately died away. Silence ensued; everyone stood still as if riveted to his place; all eyes were turned in eager suspense and with breathless curiosity toward the group that stood in the middle of the hall; all tried to catch a word, a glance, in order to draw therefrom their own conclusions.

"What's the 'Pastorale'?" asked Dulcie. "It's the Sicilian National Dance. Every body dances it sometimes by sunlight and sometimes by moonlight. Oh! it's a thing that gets into your blood! Once you hear it played on the pipes you have to jump up and dance you simply can't help it. There's magic in it!" "Dance it for us now on the terrace!" suggested Dulcie. "I've no music!" "Can't you hum it?

Seems to me you took an awful long time findin' that hammer." "It was away back in the drawer. I didn't see it at first." "Hum! Grace Van Horne, if I thought you heard what that that THING said to me, I'd I'd Good land of mercy! somebody ELSE is comin'." Steps, measured, dignified steps, sounded on the walk. From without came a "Hum ha!" a portentous combination of cough and grunt.

From early morning a light eastern breeze brought a confused hum of human life, above which predominated the whistle of steamers.

Then I began with massage. It seemed necessary in the Indian environment to hum some tune, and I found that the "Koochy-Koochy" lent itself best to the motion, so it became my medicine song. With many "Koochy-Koochy"-ings and much ice-cold water he was nearly cured in three days, and sound again in a week.

"And now, Faith Gartney, tell me all about it! What sent you here?" "Nothing. Nobody. I came, aunt. I wanted to see the place, and you." The rough eyebrows were bent keenly across the table. "Hum!" breathed Aunt Henderson. There was small interior sympathy between her ideas and those that governed the usual course of affairs in Hickory Street.

Guy sprang to help him to his sofa, and then, without speaking, hurried up-stairs. 'Mamma, tete-a-tete with the silent one! exclaimed Charles. 'I will not tell you all I think of him, said she, leaving the room. 'Hum! soliloquised Charles.

In the case of Lucy Ferrier the occasion was serious enough in itself, apart from its future influence on her destiny and that of many besides. It was a warm June morning, and the Latter Day Saints were as busy as the bees whose hive they have chosen for their emblem. In the fields and in the streets rose the same hum of human industry.

"How's that, sir?" asked the air mechanic. "I say, it's balmy weather we're having." "Oh! Yes, sir." "You've checked her all over, Wilson?" "Yes, sir. And fueled her according to Lieutenant Larkin's instructions." "Hum." McGee slowly walked around the plane, giving every functional detail a critical look, nor was he the least hurried by the fact that Larkin was displaying impatience.

"Well, they brought the wounded man up-stairs, and put him in the room that adjoined my sleeping apartment. The partitions between were of the sham kind merely boards papered over. After he was settled, and the hum of many voices died away, I went into my little bed-room. "I had scarcely entered when a voice from the next room, a man's voice, deep and full, although then subdued, startled me.