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The explosion is in place nearest, in time first, and as to sound loudest, but this the most articulate and arrestive fact is employed exclusively for the purpose of producing the subsequent and more distant echo. The explosion is instantly dismissed from the mind and attention concentrated on the reverberation which it called forth.
It sobered him. He had had the impulse to snatch her to his breast, to seal the half-compact with a lover's kiss, so passionate that the memory of it must for ever bind her to him. But the impulse was past. They stood perfectly silent, stiff, in the interval it seemed a very long one between the lightning flash, and the distant reverberation of thunder which followed it.
"Is there a gentleman named Robinson in there?" she asked, timidly. "Gentleman named who?" came the thunderclap again. "Robinson," said the lady, faintly. "No! No!" said the thunder-clap. Then "Go away," it rumbled. "Go away." The reverberation of that mighty voice rolled and shook through the cabin.
The heat is somewhat less oppressive on the side near the seashore, than in the old town, where the reverberation of the calcareous soil, and the proximity of the mountain of San Antonio, raise the temperature to an excessive degree.
To hear too, that voice, not uttered by another, by whom it might easily be mimicked, but by myself! I cannot now recollect the transition which led me to the notion of sounds, similar to these, but produced by other means than reverberation. Could I not so dispose my organs as to make my voice appear at a distance? From speculation I proceeded to experiment.
The two capital secrets in the art of prose composition are these: 1st, The philosophy of transition and connection, or the art by which one step in an evolution of thought is made to arise out of another: all fluent and effective composition depends on the connections; 2dly, The way in which sentences are made to modify each other; for, the most powerful effects in written eloquence arise out of this reverberation, as it were, from each other in a rapid succession of sentences; and, because some limitation is necessary to the length and complexity of sentences, in order to make this interdependency felt, hence it is that the Germans have no eloquence.
As they climbed and clanged with slow precision she continued to count, audibly and with equal precision, noting their hollow reverberation. How many steps had the stair? She wished she knew. No need! The colossal trampling announced the lessening distance in an increasing volume of sound not to be misunderstood.
By the way the sounds echoed from the interior he knew that the rooms were encumbered with articles which left no space for reverberation, a characteristic feature of the homes of workmen and humble households, where space and air are always lacking. Jules looked out mechanically for the pinks, and found them on the outer sill of a sash window between two filthy drain-pipes.
"Six miles at least!" observed the one. "Ay, more than that!" replied the other. Awhile, they gazed at the sea and at each other in mute amazement. But in the midst of their perplexity, what sound was that which startled them? Was it mere fancy? Was it the reverberation of the cannon still booming in their ears? Or was it not truly the report of another and a distant gun in answer to their own?
Of a sudden there was a sharp reverberation that sounded so much like the report of a big gun that all hands jumped. The course of the ship was changed, and the jingle bell sounded. The "Yankee" forged on at full speed in the direction from which the sound had come. We all stood in expectant attitudes, listening for another report.
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