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We permit the great general, confronted suddenly with a mad bull, to turn and run, without forfeiting his reputation for courage. The bishop who, stepping on a concealed slide in winter, entertains passers-by with momentary rag-time steps, loses none of his dignity once the performance is concluded.
To baffle him, to evade him, to anticipate his coming and be away from home, constituted the chief object of her existence. A bang of the gate announced the arrival of the head of the household, which was promptly followed by the strains of a hymn cheerfully whistled in rag-time.
It isn’t far from rag-time to “When I survey the wondrous Cross.” When they had finished the hymn I said, “Boys, I am going to tell you the story of my father’s conversion.” For I had to convince my padre friend that they were not sceptical.
He seemed like something large and pathetic, a big dog in trouble. She hated to be hurting him. And all the time her foot tapped accompaniment to the rag-time tune. "But you can't live all your life with a memory," said Wally. Jill turned and faced him. His eyes seemed to leap at her, and they were just as she had pictured them. "You don't understand," she said gently. "You don't understand."
"Oh, in these cadaverous old looking-glasses-everybody looks fished up from the canal!" She jerked away from him to spin down the long floor of the sala, hands on hips, whistling a rag-time tune.
A man who risks his life as do we who are in the fighting line. He has services, talks, addresses, but he never preaches. He practises all the time. Out of this war there will come a new religion. It won't be a sin any more to sing rag-time on Sunday, as it was in the days of my childhood. It won't be a sin to play a game on Sunday.
The services were undeniably popular. The men enjoyed singing hymns, and they listened patiently to the sermons because they liked Haddingly. The officers, who also liked Haddingly, attended the Sunday morning services with great regularity. Dalton, though he preferred playing rag-time on the piano, accompanied the hymns on the harmonium.
The fat-faced conducteur, with whom I had suddenly grown in favor, repeated the cognac treatment on the sentries. Before I knew it, they had me alongside the table, one hand steadied against a thwart of the swaying cabin, my head in the smoke of the oil lamp, my feet pounding and kicking, as it seemed, at the very door of Antwerp. The piano salesman shouted rag-time, Mile.
From that moment the mental atmosphere within the Dewey was cleared. Inspired by the national anthem, every man resolved that now, do or die, he would perform his part bravely. "Where do we go from here, boys?" Bill started to play, and immediately a dozen lusty voices joined in the rag-time refrain. So the merriment continued over evening mess and into the evening.
As to type music to whose appeal I as an American am susceptible, I confess to a very sympathetic reaction to the syncopated rhythms known as 'rag-time, and which appear to be especially American in character."
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