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The actress's voice infuriated Christophe. She had that singing, labored diction, that monotonous melopoeia which seems to have been dear to the least poetic people in the world since the days of the Champmesle and the Hotel de Bourgogne. Christophe was so exasperated by it that he wanted to go away.
But Hamilcar took the path towards the mill, from which there might be heard issuing a mournful melopoeia. The heavy mill-stones were turning amid the dust. They consisted of two cones of porphyry laid the one upon the other the upper one of the two, which carried a funnel, being made to revolve upon the second by means of strong bars.
That odd melopoeia was executed standing, with the eyes fixed, the eyebrows crumpled, the brow knit, and with an appearance of effort. The word amen, in particular, was given out in a quivering, trembling voice. That word played a great part in the liturgy. In imitation of the Jews, the new adherents employed it to mark the assent of the multitude to the words of the prophet or the precentor.
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