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Updated: May 4, 2025
Three quarters of a mile of frothing billows, like some colossal instrument, never ceased playing music down an inclined channel until the trance of winter locked it up. At August dusk, when all that shaggy world was sinking to darkness, the gushing monotone became very distinct.
Musical tones, rising and falling in weird octaves, whining pityingly, diabolically, sobbing in a fascinating monotone and slobbering in ragged chords, calling as they swept over the plain, always calling and exhorting, they mingled in barbaric discord with the defiant barks of the six-shooters and the inquiring cracks of the Winchesters.
Where in the world had the reviewer heard that voice before, with its patient monotone, as well known as his oldest friend's, its constant digressions and "reflections," its sentences so familiar, yet so new, sentences which, as each topic came up, he could write before they were uttered.
As I sat on my balcony hour after hour, reading and thinking of the Shelleys, watching the changing hues of the clouds and the beautiful bay, and listening to the sad monotone of the waves, these sweet lines of Whittier's came to my mind: "Its waves are kneeling on the strand, As kneels the human knee, Their white locks bowing to the sand, The priesthood of the sea!
Nobody could speak in a more utterly apathetic way than Flower. Her voice neither rose nor fell. She poured out her dreary words in a wailing monotone. "I know that it's my fault," she added; "Polly's little sister has died because of me." She still held her hand over the white bundle.
She signified to them that they were to sit, then quietly took her seat among them, fronting the General across the aisle. During the sermon a low voice, sharp in contradistinction to the monotone of the preacher's, was heard to repeat these words: 'I say I am not sure I shall survive it. Considerable muttering in the same quarter was heard besides.
At last he broke the silence, and made it evident that he had been placidly following the stream of his own thoughts. "Who is Joseph P. Mangles?" he asked, in his semi-inaudible monotone. "An American gentleman the word is applicable in its best sense who for his sins, or the sins of his forefathers, has been visited with the most terrible sister a man ever had." "So much I know."
I suspect I am getting bitter and ironical, and it will be wise to stop, for we are fickle creatures, the best of us, and it is quite possible that, in the mild twilight of life, in the old country, I shall find myself speaking benevolently of the Dhobie, and secretly wishing I could hear his plaintive monotone again counting out my linen at four rupees a hundred.
He paused, and looked slowly round the table. "Jooly pass the mustard," he said. Then, having helped himself, he lapsed into the monotone again, with a sort of earnest unction that had surely crossed the seas with those Pilgrim Fathers who set sail in quest of liberty. "'Give back to our Poland her ancient splendor! Look upon fields soaked with blood!
I'm so unhappy." Some instinct of delicacy prompted the woodsman to refrain from speaking. In the same listless monotone Rouletta continued: "I've always been a lucky gambler, but the cards have turned against me. I've been playing my own stakes and I've lost." "You been playing de bank?" he queried, in some bewilderment. "No, a gambler never plays his own game. He always bucks the other fellow's.
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