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"Have I tired you?" asked the girl in response, and the curious lilting note in her voice made him turn his head and glance at her in sudden suspicion. Had she really hurt herself, or was she merely indulging some hereditary streak of buffoonery at his expense? It struck him that she would be capable of such a performance, or of anything else that invited her amazing vivacity.
By and by, sure enough, he came lilting along in a self-satisfied way, and went right into the water for a good long draught. Whereupon Miss Crocodile seized him by the right leg, and held on. He guessed at once what had happened, and called out, 'Oh! my heart's adored! I'm drowning! I'm drowning! If you love me, leave hold of that old root and get a good grip of my leg it is just next door!
Half a minute later the emaciated man was in a room and being ecstatically kissed by a most beautiful and sweetly shameless girl in a striped shirtwaist; it was a very small room, and the furniture was close upon the couple, giving the scene an air of delightful privacy. And then the scene was blotted out and gay music rose lilting from some unseen cave in front of the screen.
At that the lady aborigine began to laugh. Straightway I forgot the outlandish gown, forgot the cannon-ball beads, forgot the sparse fringe, forgave the absence of "lines." Such a voice! A lilting, melodious thing. She broke into a torrent of speech, with bewildering gestures, and I saw that her hands were exquisitely formed and as expressive as her voice.
I know what he's after." "Do you?" "Yes " The Major whistled softly a lilting tune. He had been called "The Whistling Major" by his men and they had liked his clear piping. He stopped abruptly. "Well, you can't build fences around lovely little ladies " "I wish I could. I'd like to shut her up in a tower " They left it there. It was really not a thing to be talked about.
'Now then, where's the orchestra? he demanded when the applause had subsided, and the orchestra, one mouth-organ strong, promptly struck up a lilting music-hall ditty. From that he slid into 'My Little Grey Home, with a very liberal measure of time to the long-drawn notes especially. The song was caught up and ran down the trench in full chorus.
Angus had gone home on his affairs, for he had long left the navy, but was presently to return to us. It was the sweet September weather: mild the mellow sunshine, but dour the days to me! There was company in the house that evening, and I went down another way; for the sound of their lilting and laughing was but din in my ears.
Time had no meaning here: men waited from incident to incident only the moving of a line of steel caps, a pause in the music, a head thrust out from a closed window and drawn back again.... Again the music broke out, and this time it was an air that they played a lilting melancholy melody, that the priest recognised, yet could not identify.
The ball swung on and on, and Madelon, up in the musicians' gallery, sang the old country-dances in the curious dissyllabic fashion termed lilting. It never occurred to her to wonder how it was that Dorothy Fair, the daughter of the orthodox minister, should be at the ball she who had been brought up to believe in the sinful and hellward tendencies of the dance.
I was pale under my make up, and I was shaking and trembling like a baby. And even then I wanted to cry off. But I remembered my boy, and those last words of his "Carry On!" I must not fail him without at least trying to do what he would have wanted me to do! My entrance was with a lilting little song called "I Love My Jean."
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