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Nor did the contrast between the ladies end here: the full and rich-toned voice of Constance Cecil was the perfection of harmony, while the light and gay speech of her companion might be called melody the sweet playful melody of an untaught bird.
Then he dimly saw that bent heads were being turned at the table, and that he was being eyed curiously, till, in a fit of desperation, he pressed the flute to his lips and blew again, if anything, more feebly; but the sound of the notes seemed to send a thrill through his nerves, and the next came deep, rich-toned, and pure, as he ran through a prelude, from which he imperceptibly glided into a sweet old Irish melody.
Frankland, the Bible reader, was a natural orator a person with plenty of blood for her brain, ample breathing space in her chest, a rich-toned voice responsive to her feelings, and a mind not exactly intellectual, but felicitous in vocabulation and ingenious in the construction of sentences. Her emotions were mettlesome horses well-bitted quick and powerful, but firmly held.
He will perhaps turn round by and by, and in the meantime we can look at that stately old lady, his mother, a beautiful aged brunette, whose rich-toned complexion is well set off by the complex wrappings of pure white cambric and lace about her head and neck.
For some time he spoke no word, but communed with and strengthened his great heart by holy thoughts; then looking straight into his son Roper's eyes, while his own brightened with a glorious triumph, he exclaimed in the fullness of his rich-toned voice, "I thank our Lord the field is won."
Then came strains of music from the rich-toned organ. "Oh, that dear Ned Ristine is playing," cried one; and several of the group sauntered toward the music-room. The music flooded the hall and the room, so that the talk died low. "He's improvising," exclaimed Mrs. Akemit. "How splendid!
Not only is the eye pleased with the ever-varying formations of the coral bowers, but almost dazzled with the glittering fish blue, emerald, green, scarlet, orange, banded, spotted, and striped that dart hither and thither among the rich-toned sea-weed and the variegated anemones which spread their tentacles upwards as if inviting the gazer to come down!
"Never in this world was woman so loved as you," he replied, by the aid of the same language. "And yet I am an unfortunate being deprived of those qualities which give the greatest charm to the companionship of those who love." "But you are eminently beautiful, my Nisida; and I can fancy how sweet, how rich-toned would be your voice, could your lips frame the words, 'I love thee!"
Later on, however, when they became better educated, the frivolous little tinkling jigs and dances gave place to a more dignified and sonorous striking of a single rich-toned bell, or a group of such bells, and resulted in the Westminster chimes or others not unlike them." "The little tunes were mighty jolly though," observed Christopher, with evident regret. "Very jolly indeed.
Fisher-folk of picturesque type were strolling about, most of them Bretons; several of the men with handsome, simple faces, not at all brutal, and with a splendid brownness the golden-brown colour on cheek and beard that you see on an old Venetian sail. It was a squally, showery day, with sudden drizzles of sunshine; rows of rich-toned fishing-smacks were drawn up along the quays.
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