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He had turn'd over on his left side to get a better view of the singers, but the mosquito-curtains of the adjoining cots obstructed the sight. I stept round and loop'd them all up, so that he had a clear show, and then sat down again by him, and look'd and listen'd.
Clearly, he was a man of few words; for, returning, he merely pull'd out his sword, and waited for the end of my tale. The girl, also, did not interrupt me, but listen'd in silence. As I ceas'd, she said "Is this all you know?" "No," answer'd I, "it is not. But the rest I promise to tell you if we escape from this place alive. Will this content you?" She turn'd to the servant, who nodded.
He listen'd a moment to the clatter of the carts, and the tramp of early passengers on the pave below, as they wended along to commence their daily toil. It was just sunrise, and the season was summer. A little canary bird, the only pet poor Lingave could afford to keep, chirp'd merrily in its cage on the wall. How slight a circumstance will sometimes change the whole current of our thoughts!
And as he spoke the words, the casement was again darkened by the forms of the matrons it opened, and admitted Magdalen Graeme and the Mother Abbess, so we must now style her, into the apartment. Nay, hear me, brother I am elder, wiser, And holier than thou And age, and wisdom, And holiness, have peremptory claims, And will be listen'd to.
The oriole will soon be heard here, and the twanging meoeow of the cat-bird; also the king-bird, cuckoo and the warblers. Insects are out plentifully at midday. April 29. As we drove lingering along the road we heard, just after sundown, the song of the wood-thrush. We stopp'd without a word, and listen'd long.
As the old man went on, the stranger cast down his eyes, and listen'd with an appearance of great interest, though a transient smile or a brightening of the eye would occasionally disturb the serenity of his deportment. "The old owners of this place," continued the white-haired narrator, "were well off in the world, and bore a good name among their neighbors.
He listen'd to my discoorse in a kind and sober temper, but he was not convinc'd; for by and by he falls of a sudden to sighing and groaning, and cries out, 'O, I went to Vauxhall once when ye garden was not many years made, and O, how bright ye lamps shone, like ye stars of heaven fallen among bushes! and O, how sweet ye music sounded, like ye hymns of angels in ye dewy evening! but that was nigh upon twenty years gone by, and all ye world is changed since then.
By all means added Eugenius. I beg your pardon, replied Kysarcius in that case, as the mistake was only the terminations, the baptism was valid and to have rendered it null, the blunder of the priest should have fallen upon the first syllable of each noun and not, as in your case, upon the last. My father delighted in subtleties of this kind, and listen'd with infinite attention.
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