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She hastily picked a large magnolia leaf and, leaning out, let it fall upon his head. Garth started, and looked up. "Hullo!" he said. "YOU up there?" "Yes," said Jane, laughing down at him, and speaking low lest other casements should be open, "I up here. You are serenading the wrong window, dear 'devout lover." "What a lot you know about it," remarked Garth, rather moodily.
Volunteers are fond of serenading their officers; and this particular evening was the occasion of much merry-making, since a majority of the brass bands were to be mustered out of the service to-morrow. We could hear the roll of drums from imperceptible localities, and the sharp winding of bugles broke upon the silence like the trumpet of the Archangel.
But when she came to the palace whither the host conducted her, a very different effect was produced to what the kind host intended; for there, to her heart's sorrow, she beheld her lover, the inconstant Proteus, serenading the lady Silvia with music, and addressing discourse of love and admiration to her.
'Oh, tare an ouns, says he unto himself, 'an' must I sit up all night, and that ould vagabond of a sperit, glory be to God, says he, 'serenading through the house, an' doin' all sorts iv mischief. However, there was no gettin' aff, and so he put a bould face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of pottieen, and another of holy wather.
He was ever first to talk in favor of any new imposition of taxes, or special assessment, especially when he smelled a contract or a farming assignment behind it. He always had an orchestra ready for congratulating and serenading the governors, judges, and other officials on their name-days and birthdays, at the birth or death of a relative, and in fact at every variation from the usual monotony.
He played the triangle in our serenading and quartet crowd that used to ring the welkin three nights a week somewhere in town. "Willie jibed with his name considerable. He weighed about as much as a hundred pounds of veal in his summer suitings, and he had a 'Where-is-Mary? expression on his features so plain that you could almost see the wool growing on him.
When the last cake had disappeared and the punch was almost gone, the serenading party sang the rest of their verses and departed gayly, yet in spite of their gayety there lurked in each heart the shadow of the parting that was to come all too soon. Commencement day dawned smilingly, as though anxious to contribute to the happiness of the four chums by putting on its most sunshiny face.
A serenading party, backing their boats out into the stream, had formed a small blockade, and in the group of gondolas that awaited the unraveling of the tangle I spied Enrico. He had a single passenger, a lady in the inevitable black mantilla, holding in her hands the inevitable fan. A second glance at the lady and sure enough! it was Mona Lisa.
He sings the praises of the earth and the arts, flowers and jewels, wine and music, in a moonlight, serenading manner, as to the light guitar; even wisdom comes from his tongue like singing; no one is, indeed, more tuneful in the upper notes. But even while he sings the song of the Sirens, he still hearkens to the barking of the Sphinx.
Thursday, 8th. ... My dear father is beginning to gain strength once more, thank Heaven! Poor people! Friday, 9th. ... I went with my mother to the theater to hear "Fra Diavolo," with which, and Miss Sheriff's singing in it, we were delighted. Saturday, 10th. ... We had a talk about the fashion of southern countries of serenading, which I am very glad is not an English fashion.
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