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Cecilia left her thanks, with something more substantial, for the girl, and hurried back to the cab. The streets seemed more thronged than ever, and presently traffic was blocked by a line of marching men more "diggers" on their way to the transport. Cecilia's chauffeur turned back into a side street, evidently a short cut. Half-way along it the taxi jarred once or twice and came to a standstill.
He was quietly sleeping some hours later when suddenly the boat was sharply jarred, and turned very nearly on her side, while the water could be heard surging around her bow and stern. Sam was on his feet in a moment, and the other boys sprang up quickly. "Who's at the oar?" cried Sam, "and what's the matter?"
Though her voice was no longer so free from sharpness and harshness as in the old days, it by no means jarred upon the ear; nay, every tone revealed its admirable training. She had broken the long silence with Josquin's motet, "Quia amore langueo," and in her quiet chamber dedicated it, as it were, to the man to whom this cry of longing had been so dear.
And, in the midst of the stillness, he rose and quietly returned to his old place by the fire. It was long before anyone spoke. Then even Miss Gannion's level voice jarred upon the silence. "You have a wonderful gift in your keeping, Mr. Thayer," was all she said. But Beatrix was silent, her eyes fixed on the glowing coals. At length she roused herself with an effort.
Burleigh's heavy step passing near the piano, jarred down a picture that was hung insecurely, and it fell with a crash at Miss Burton's side. Was it the shock of the falling picture upon unprepared and overstrained nerves, or what was it that produced the instantaneous change in the joyous-appearing maiden? Her hands dropped nerveless from the keys.
His face was drawn, his eyes hungry, his frame wasted, but his smile was the smile of a man at peace with the world. The West the vast, undiscovered Canadian West jarred on the sensitive nerves of this Paris-bred priest.
This remark jarred upon the susceptible nerves of the poet; nor could he help wondering what strange fatality had put into this young man's mouth an epithet, which ill-natured people had affirmed to be more proper to his merit than the one assumed by himself. "True, I am a verse-maker," he resumed, "but my verse is no more than the material body into which I breathe the celestial soul of thought.
If she will be good enough to say if it is made to her taste," he said anxiously, as if his whole happiness was contained in the tiny teapot at which he was frowning deprecatingly. His assiduity jarred on Diana's new-found jangling nerves. She recognised that he was sincere in his efforts to please her, but just now they only seemed an added humiliation.
Blanca attended on her and put her to bed for she could not bear to have Licinia near her. The old woman's gossip jarred upon her nerves and she was physically afraid to hear indifferent lips utter the name of the praefect of Rome. Only the call, "Hail Taurus Antinor Cæsar!
There was a note in his voice that quelled the man as much as had Harlan's resolute demeanor at the door. "Spinney, it will be better for you if you listen." The candidate turned to face him, apprehensive and defiant at the same time. The panels of the door against which Harlan leaned were jarred by beating fists. Harlan heard the voice of his grandfather outside, calling to him impatiently.
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