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In the darkness a loud and endless humming arose from the great blue crowds bivouacked in the streets. From time to time a sharp spatter of firing from far picket lines entered this bass chorus. The smell from the smouldering ruins floated on the cold night breeze. Dan, seated ruefully upon the doorstep of a shot-pierced house, was proclaiming the campaign badly managed.
"No," said I, "not particularly; a walk under the 'broad canopy' is preferable on a beautiful morning like this to a poky little pew; and I like the singing of the birds better than the humming of a clergyman's nose. "Very well," he said; "we will, if you like, take a little walk."
It is strange how sorrow charms us when it is distant and visionary. Even when we are happiest we enjoy making music "Of old, unhappy, far-off things." "What is that song which you are singing, Ferdinand?" asks the lady, as she hears him humming behind her in the canoe. "Ah, madame, it is the chanson of a young man who demands of his blonde why she will not marry him.
Morgan came to the conclusion that his presence was unsuspected, so he lay in wait to see what was afoot. Time flew on; to one, at least, the silence became irksome. Sounds at last! Some one was coming down the pathway humming a song. The spy for such he was stirred. Morgan noiselessly raised himself on his elbow.
The two sat there together, and the long summer afternoon passed humming and singing with bees and birds, and breathing sweetly through the pine branches. They themselves were as a fixed heart of love in the midst of it, and all around them in their graves lay the dead who had known and gone beyond it all, but nobody could tell if they had forgotten.
For some few minutes she laved herself, singing softly the while to herself as is customary with many Polynesian native women when bathing, when suddenly, through the humming drone of the beating surf on the windward reef, she heard the sound or voices. "Ah!" she said to herself, "now I will wait and startle these girls from Tabeâue as they come along."
The autumn sunshine had not embrowned the transparent skin, but the red of the lips seemed deeper, and the ethereal almond-blossom tint on the cheeks less uncertain. Mary was not reading, nor thinking apparently, but sat idly humming a tune and picking up pebbles only to throw them from her.
The apparatus for spinning him, however, perhaps from its complexity, would not work a fact evidently owing to the stupidity of the gardener. On reconsidering the subject, he announced, to the disappointment of some amongst us, that, although the physical discovery was now complete, he saw a moral difficulty. It was not a humming top that was required, but a peg top.
There was a faint humming noise coming from it which had escaped his notice before. He walked over to it and looked at the queerly-shaped things that lay on its shining surface. He had already decided that the table was no more wood than the wall, and a touch of a finger to the surface verified the decision. The only thing that looked at all familiar on the table was a sheaf of written material.
There was a second pause of silence. The humming of flies among the evergreen shrubs under the window penetrated drowsily into the room; and the tramp of a heavy-footed cart-horse, plodding along the high-road beyond the garden, was as plainly audible in the stillness as if it had been night. The lawyer roused his flagging resolution, and spoke to the purpose when he spoke next.
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