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Updated: May 16, 2025
No sooner was the fiddler heard lowering his strings for the time-honoured "Jig" than eyes brightened, and feet began to beat the floor, including, of course, those of the fiddler himself, who put his whole soul into that weird and wonderful melody, whose fantastic glee is so strangely blended with an indescribable master-note of sadness.
And, observe the art of it, under all the simplicity notice, for example, the curious weird effect produced by the studied repetition of the word "dingle" coming ever round and round like the master-note in a chime. Or take the passage about Britain towards the end of "The Bible in Spain."
The mothers wept over their own children. Eva stood at her sister's elbow, with a hand on one of the child's, which was laid over Fanny's shoulder. Jim Tenny had his face hidden on his horse's neck. "Give her to me!" said Mrs. Zelotes again. "Give her to me, I say! I am her own grandmother!" "And I am her own mother!" called out Fanny, with a great master-note of love and triumph and defiance.
I confess" he leaned back in his chair, with an indulgent smile, as one who should say, "the gods themselves do not wholly escape" "I confess," he repeated, "it is something of a tax upon the capacity of a veteran financier such as myself. But then strain in some form or other, as I frequently remind myself, is the very master-note of our modern existence. We all experience it in our degree.
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