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He leaned far over the window-sill, raving and gesticulating; the tassel of his white nightcap danced like a thing of life: he opened his mouth to dimensions hitherto unprecedented, and yet his voice, instead of escaping from it in a roar, came forth shrill and choked and tottering. A little more serenading, and it was clear he would be better acquainted with the apoplexy.
Now followed about eight months of drifting about with the King and his council, and his gay and showy and dancing and flirting and hawking and frolicking and serenading and dissipating court drifting from town to town and from castle to castle a life which was pleasant to us of the personal staff, but not to Joan. However, she only saw it, she didn't live it.
"Why, Blake!" he cried. "What have you got on? Have you been serenading somebody?" "I can't stop," the other answered with a grin. "Open that door for me, quick." A porter held back the door, but as Blake slipped through Harding seized his cloak. "Hold on; I want a talk with you. I've been waiting all day."
"Would it have made any difference to him where you had been?" she asked calmly enough. Bob had a presentiment that he was on dangerous ground. This new and self-possessed Cynthia was an enigma to him certainly a fascinating enigma. "My father world have thought I was a fool to go off serenading," he answered, flushing.
After serenading his mistress, who knows him only by the name of Count Lindoro, he prevails upon Figaro, the factotum of the place, to bring about an interview with her. In spite of her guardian's watchfulness, as well as that of Don Basilio, her music-teacher, who is helping Bartolo in his schemes, she informs the Count by letter that she returns his passion.
One more illustration: The greater part of the second act of "Die Meistersinger" is taken up with Beckmesser's serenade, comically interrupted by the songs and the hammering of Hans Sachs the cobbler. Toward the end the apprentice David sees Beckmesser, and imagining he is serenading his sweetheart, assaults and beats him most unmercifully.
"Sometimes the faint click of castanets rises from the Alameda, where some gay Andalusians are dancing away the summer night. Sometimes the dubious tones of a guitar and the notes of an amorous voice, tell perchance the whereabout of some moonstruck lover serenading his lady's window.
Michele at once procured a stout bludgeon, and lay in wait every night behind the door. But it happened that Salvator and Antonio judged it prudent to omit their serenading in the Via Ripetta for some nights preceding the carrying into execution of their plan, so as not to remind the old gentleman of his adversaries.
You see the baker died unexpectedly. One must live somehow." "And could you not how shall I say? Would you not be willing to give me lessons in book-keeping instead of teaching some one else to play the mandolin?" "You would not care to learn the mandolin yourself, Signor Principe? It is a very pretty instrument, especially for country parties, as well as for serenading." Orsino laughed.
Birds of prey, you Dutch varlet! What do you think of the mistress of the manor? The serenading anti-renters have come for her." Then he repeated more slowly: "The squaw Pewasch! For seventeen and one-half ells of duffels! A rare principality for the scornful minx! Lord! how the birds sing now around the manor screech owls, cat-birds, bobolinks!"
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