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I have confessed all my weakness to you, and now you will say that I need a few weeks of salt breeze." "I will sing you the song first. Perhaps we may pluck out its mystery." She preluded a moment and sang, while Farnham waited with a strained sense of expectancy, as if something unspeakably serious was impending. She sang with far more force and feeling than the night before.
The little curate, stirring a partially empty cup of tea, mingled with our party, and preluded, I remember, every observation he made by a vigorous resumption of stirring. We talked of Cambridge, and Margaret kept us to it.
He preluded it by the advice to write it up as a real sea story, but asked that I suppress his name until he had saved enough to get him to Cuba, where he had new plans for advancement. And now, after months of thought, I am following his advice; for no effort of the creative mind, and no flight of conventional fancy, can equal the weird, grim yarn that he reeled off between orders.
Neither have I enriched either mine own relations nor strange women, at the expense of the Patrimony." "There hath not been such a Lord Abbot," said Father Nicholas, "to my knowledge, since the days of Abbot Ingelram, who " At that portentous word, which always preluded a long story, the Abbot broke in. "May God have mercy on his soul! we talk not of him now.
So she took the lute and preluded in various modes, then returned to the first and sang the following verses to a lively air: O eyes, be large with tears and pour them forth amain, For, lo, for very love my senses fail and wane. All manner of desire I suffer for his sake I cherish, and my foes make merry at my pain.
She seated herself at the harpsichord, and sang the following song with much feeling and simplicity. The refrain of the song, if it may be so called, instead of closing each stanza, preluded it. O fair, O sweet, when I do look on thee, In whom all joys so well agree, Heart and soul do sing in me.
Jevons suggests that the many brief poems collected in the Homeric hymns are invocations which the rhapsodists preluded to their recitals. Another conclusion of the proem often is, "I will be mindful both of thee and of another lay," meaning, says Mr. Jevons, that "the local deity will figure in the recitation from Homer which the rhapsodist is about to deliver."
What would the chairman do now? The situation was distinctly awkward seeing his helplessness and the lukewarmness of the Board behind him. And the secretary felt more strongly than ever the absurdity of his being an underling, he who in a few well-chosen words could so easily have twisted the meeting round his thumb. Suddenly he heard the long, rumbling sigh which preluded the chairman's speeches.
Then he signed to the thin girl and said to her, 'O Houri of Paradise, feed thou our ears with sweet words and sounds. So she took the lute; and, tuning it, preluded and sang these two couplets, Their lord rejoiced and, emptying the cup, gave the girls to drink.
I heard his footsteps go strangely down the stairs, and his door shut behind him in the room below. I didn't feel comfortable. I was afraid he was ill more ill than he wished either of us to suspect. It was the only way in which I could account for the spasm which preluded that last fit of coughing.
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