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Updated: May 24, 2025
Beneath the shrill overtone of the nightjars, what noiseless grey shapes, what deep breathings and cracklings and creepings might there not be?... Was he afraid? That question determined him to go. He hesitated whether he should take a gun. A stick? A gun, he knew, was a dangerous thing to an inexperienced man. No! He would go now, even as he was with empty hands.
And there was always the noise of wind which became a corollary of his pain, pulsing with it, never quiet, an overtone that tragically would not yield.
Wagons rattled past over the uneven pavement, and below along the river locomotives whistled. Above all was the bass overtone of the city, swelling louder each minute with the day's work. A picture of a fair palace in the cavernous depths of a Sienna street came over the young man with a vivid sense of pain. Under his breath he muttered to himself, "Fierce!"
Supernatural machinery is either symbolic of natural conditions and moral aims or else is worthless. There is one other phase or possible overtone of religion about which a word might be added in conclusion.
The quality of tone was now that of a gigantic orchestra, now that of a full brass band, now that of a single unknown instrument as though the composer had had at his command every overtone capable of being produced by any possible instrument, and with them had woven a veritable tapestry of melody upon an incredibly complex loom of sound. As went the harmony, so the play of light accompanied it.
There were shouts of derision and mockery a great overtone of acrid derision the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared. And the procession moved on. Almost every shop had a flag flying.
She uttered this belief emphatically so emphatically, in truth, that it came to mean: "I wonder if you will indeed." And there was even an overtone: "After all, it's not the least necessary that you should." "I suppose I have met one of them already." "You have met Amy. But there are Hortense and Carolyn." "What can they all be?"
And when they and we had passed in through the gateways where the townsfolk of old lashed out against their robber Infidel and robber Christian enemies all the black little narrow streets were filled with an undertone of murmuring voices and an overtone of clear sweet song. On the little Grande Place the crowd was packed densely.
Imagine so salty a phrase on the lips of the Humphrey Van Weyden of a few months gone! There must have been a touch of the melodramatic in my pose and voice, for Maud smiled. Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone.
They stood aghast for a moment when that crash of noise broke around them; but they came from a life where there was nothing of beauty except the lonely strength of the mountains and the appalling silences of the stars that roll above the desert. Almost at once they caught the overtone of human joyousness, and they turned with strange smiles to each other, and it was "Pierre?" "Jack?"
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