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Here, especially after sunset, he pours forth his brilliant and melancholy strains with a peculiar cadence, and fills the whole forest with sound. It seems as if the echoes were delimited with his notes, and took pleasure in passing them round with multiplied reverberations.
As Tom knocked on the door there came a clap of thunder, following a burst of lightning, that caused Mary to put her hands over her ears. "Guess they didn't hear that," observed Tom, as the echoes of the blast died away. "I mean my knock. The thunder drowned it. I'll try again." He took advantage of a lull in the thundering reverberations, and tapped smartly.
Here and there at one of the platforms, a train lay becalmed; here and there a wandering footfall echoed; the cab-horses outside stamped with startling reverberations on the stones; or from the neighbouring wilderness of railway an engine snorted forth a whistle.
Its reverberations sounded far into the night as La Corriveau emerged stealthily out of the forest, crouching on the shady side of the high garden hedges, until she reached the old watch-tower, which stood like a dead sentinel at his post on the flank of the Chateau. There was an open doorway, on each side of which lay a heap of fallen stones.
It was impossible to help a shudder upon hearing those horrible reverberations, each one telling of the awful profundity of the place one which, without extensive mining apparatus, I felt that any fathoming for search was out of the question. Dreadful place indeed! "They cannot have thrown any treasure down there," I mentally exclaimed the next moment. "It must be somewhere recoverable."
It was just the place to hear the round going by at night in the darkness, with the solid tramp of men marching, and the startling reverberations of the drum. It reminded you, that even this place was a point in the great warfaring system of Europe, and might on some future day be ringed about with cannon smoke and thunder, and make itself a name among strong towns.
None is secure from death. Wealth, wisdom, strength, beauty, all are nothing, nothing...." In a burst of revolt, our poet exclaims: "If I knew that my voice with its reverberations sufficed to destroy the earth and the fulness thereof, and all the hosts of heaven, I would cry with a thundering noise: Cease! Myself I would return to nothing with the rest of mankind.
It seemed as if some sylvan deity, some Mendelssohn or Chopin of this vast forest solitude heard those harsh notes and putting a golden cornet to his lips, sent back the melodies the bugler meant to make. As the last reverberations died away among the hills we thought of those lines in Emerson's "May Day": Echo waits with Art and Care And will the faults of song repair.
The thunder of the supreme struggle and its reverberations will shake the continents for months, and will be felt from Pole to Pole." For this and other reasons this seemed a risky place to be in. There was something sinister about the murky atmosphere, and a suspicion of mosquitoes besides. Had there not been other travelers staying here, we should have felt still more uneasy.
The wind was still bitter, and his vision was shut in by a near horizon which Billy had often thought of as the rim of hell. On this afternoon his heart was as leaden as the day. Under his feet the frozen earth shivered with the rumbling reverberations of the crashing and breaking mountains of ice.
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