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Updated: May 15, 2025
He went to the piano, but not to play a tune. Impossible to insult that crippled tempest on the sofa with the sweet eternal placidities of Mozart or Bach. His fingers wandered over the lower register, improvising, modulating from one minor key to another in a cobweb of silver harmony spun pale and low from a minimum of technical attention. For once Bernard had struck home.
"You broke your promise to give him up " "Why, Jerry, I had to invite him to my dance. It would have been a slight." "But you promised. He's a " "But I've known him for ages, Jerry. I can't be impolite." "He's not polite to you, to me, or anybody. I told you I wanted you to give him up." "You're fearfully exacting," she said, modulating her voice softly. "He's a cad.
I recited the fine verses of Ariosto, as if it had been rhythmic prose, animating it by the sound of my voice and the movements of my eyes, and by modulating my intonation according to the sentiments with which I wished to inspire my audience. They saw how hardly I could restrain my tears, and every eye was wet; but when I came to the stanza,
She could bring it to a whisper that would almost melt your heart with tenderness, as she had melted Sir Florian's, when she sat near to him reading poetry; and then she could raise it to a pitch of indignant wrath befitting a Lady Macbeth when her husband ventured to rebuke her. And her ear was quite correct in modulating these tones.
For long minutes he played, modulating from one enchanting composition to another, and finishing with the one "all chords with big bass notes" that marched on and on the one Billy had sat long ago on the stairs to hear. "There! Now will you play for me?" he asked, rising to his feet, and turning reproachful eyes upon her. Billy, too, rose to her feet.
I asked him to come this evening. I hope he will come," added Maria Dmitrievna with a slight sigh and a bitter smile. Liza understood the hidden meaning of that smile, but she had other things to think about then. "And he's young?" repeated Varvara Pavlovna, lightly modulating from key to key. "Twenty-eight years old and a most pleasing exterior. Un jeune homme accompli."
Henry declared that he was a false, cunning creature; and Charles James, though he always spoke of him as his dear brother Samuel, was not slow to say a word against him when opportunity offered. To speak the truth, Samuel was a cunning boy, and those even who loved him best could not but own that for one so young, he was too adroit in choosing his words, and too skilled in modulating his voice.
All was silent in the house; everything seemed dead except a tall Flemish clock on the stairs, which regularly chimed the hour, the half hour, and the quarter, singing the march of time in the night, modulating it in divers tones. The Countess, motionless, felt an intolerable terror rising in her soul.
As he moved through the halls, modulating his steps in grave cadence to the music, the dignity and grace of his deportment seemed truly majestic; but when he actually danced a measure himself the enthusiasm was at its height. They should, indeed, be rustics, cried the Walloon envoys in a breath, not to give the hand of fellowship at once to a Prince so condescending and amiable.
Her mouth was rather large, the lips shut tight, and nothing could have been more graceful, more charming than the outline of these full lips of hers, and her round white chin, modulating downward with a certain delicious roundness to her neck, her throat and the sweet feminine amplitude of her breast.
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