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Whatever tuneful instrument one of your friends possesses shall solace your slumbers or batter the pate of your enemy. But discourage the habitual serenader. 'The musician you must mean is due here now, by appointment to meet you, said Diana, and set him momentarily agape with the name of Mr. Percy Dacier. That was the origin of the alliance between the young statesman and a newspaper editor.
Here Komel came night after night, but the song was no more repeated. Either the sentry's shot had effectually frightened away the serenader, or else he had not come hither with any fixed object connected with his song. In either case the poor girl felt unhappy and disappointed in the matter, and her companions saw a cloud of care upon her fair face.
Waal, never mind, my Ethiopian serenader," he added good-humouredly. "You're none the worse fur your colour, as fur as I ken see; and I will say this fur you, that you're the slickest and smartest ship's cook I ever came across from Maine to Californy; and that's saying something!" "Tank you, massa," replied Snowball, much flattered by the compliment.
She took the persistent one, Wilbur Minafer, no breaker of bass viols or of hearts, no serenader at all. A few people, who always foresaw everything, claimed that they were not surprised, because though Wilbur Minafer "might not be an Apollo, as it were," he was "a steady young business man, and a good church-goer," and Isabel Amberson was "pretty sensible for such a showy girl."
The melancholy street-lamps were shedding their last gleams at street-corners and in by-ways, like tired eyes struggling in vain against sleep. By their dim light, wrapped in their cloaks, glided past like shadows, vagabonds, watchmen, and gamblers. Only the hoarse shout of the drunkard or the song of the serenader broke the peaceful silence of the historic city.
He stood, unseen in the shadow of great trees, before a low rambling mansion; not so remote but that the perfume from the garden was wafted to him over the hedge. "A troubadour!" he said scornfully to himself. "Edward Mauville sighing at a lady's window like some sentimental serenader! There's a light yonder. Now to play my despairing part, I must watch for her image.
As Lothaw drove toward his country-seat, "The Mural Enclosure," he observed a crowd, apparently of the working class, gathered around a singular-looking man in the picturesque garb of an Ethiopian serenader. "What does he say?" inquired Lothaw of his driver. The man touched his hat respectfully and said, "My Mary Ann." "'My Mary Ann!" Lothaw's heart beat rapidly.
I paid her the kiss you sent her with all my heart, and she rapped my fingers for my reward with all hers. Pray return as soon as you can. Meantime, rely upon the care of, yours faithfully, "Arthur Mervyn. "P.S. You will naturally wish to know if I have the least guess concerning the person of the serenader. In truth, I have none.
Whitmonby, accepting proposals which suited him, quitted the house, after an hour of political talk, no longer inclined to hint at the 'habitual serenader, but very ready to fall foul of those who did, as he proved when the numbers buzzed openly. Times were masculine; the excitement on the eve of so great a crisis, and Diana's comprehension of it and fine heading cry, put that weak matter aside.
Locker," said Olive, looking at him very intently, "did you come here to renew any of your previous performances?" "As a serenader?" said he. "Oh, no! But perhaps you mean as a love-maker?" "That is it," said Olive. Mr. Locker took off his hat, and rubbed his head. "No," said he, "I didn't; but I wish I could say I did. But that's impossible. I presume I am right in assuming this impossibility?"
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