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Updated: June 19, 2025
I looked anxiously down the spacious room without seeing Madame de Ferrier. The simplicity, which made for beauty of houses in France, struck me, in the white and gold paneling, and the chimney, which lifted its mass of design to the ceiling. I must have been staring at this and thinking of Madame de Ferrier when my name was called in a lilting and excited fashion: "Lazarre!"
To the poor, ignorant ones around him he was the mouth-piece of the mill, and they feared him even more than they did Kingsley himself, Kingsley with his ironical ways and lilting eye-glasses. With them Jud's nod alone was sufficient. They were still grouped around the office awaiting their turn. In the faces of some were shrewdness, cunning, hypocrisy.
Never had dwarf a sweeter voice. If she had been compressed in order to produce melody, her tones were compensation, enough. She made lilting sounds while dangling her feet to the blaze, as if she thought in music. Le Rossignol was so positive a force that she seldom found herself overborne by the presence of large human beings.
One by one it liberated from the enmeshments of its tangled wooded heights the constellations to gladden the eye and lure the fancy. Its largess of silver torrents flung down its slopes made fertile the little fields, and bestowed a lilting song on the silence, and took a turn at the mill-wheel, and did not disdain the thirst of the humble cattle.
So long as beer is cheap, and songs of the Fatherland are set to lilting strains, will these excellent people "Ho, ho, my brothers," and "Hi, hi, my brothers," and wait for fate, in the shape of some compelling Bismarck, to drive them into anything more than the brotherhood of brown mugs of beer and Wagner's mysterious music of the future.
"Will I ordher a chaise, sir?" replied Dandy, with a serio-comic face. One look from his master, however, sent him about his business; but the latter could hear him lilting the "White Cockade," as he went down stairs. "Now," said he, when Dandy was gone, "can it be possible that she has at length given her consent to this marriage? Never voluntarily.
Some lilting ragtime ditty that's rollicking and gay will gain the public favor and hold it for a day. But when the day is ended, and we are tired and worn, and more than half persuaded that man was made to mourn, how soothing then the music our fathers used to know! The songs of sense and feeling, the songs of long ago!
As he ate, the apple-blossoms fell about him, settling on the rim of his ragged hat, and even finding shelter among the white waves of his beard. We sat cross-legged on the grass before him eagerly awaiting the song. At last, in a voice rich with emotion, he sang to a strange lilting tune: "I be in a terr'ble fix, Wife have I and childer six.
Strike up, you mummies, or you pay yourselves for what you drink to-night. Soul of desires!" as the musicians grabbed up their instruments, and a leaping, lilting, quick-beating air went rollicking out over the hubbub "a quadrille, you angels of inspiration! Partners, gentlemen! Partners, ladies! A quadrille! A quadrille!"
Terry cocked her head just a little to one side, like a knowing bird, looked up into space beyond the piano top, and played the lilting little melody with charm and fidelity. The dark young man followed her with a wagging of the head and little jerks of both outspread hands. His expression was beatific, enraptured.
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