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She could not dissemble her anger, and when my eldest brother waited on Ann on her name day with the 'pueri' to give her a 'serenata' on the water, whereas, a year agone, he had done Ursula the like honor, she fell upon my friend in our garden with such fierce and cruel words that my cousin had to come betwixt them, and then to temper my great wrath by saying that Ursula was a motherless child, whose hasty ways had never been bridled by a loving hand.
It was not a revision of the serenata which he wrote at Naples, but an entirely new work. More important as a landmark in Handel's development is the masque of Esther, originally called Haman and Mordecai. About the early history of these works little is known; both were intended to be acted on the stage, and they were very probably performed in this way at Canons.
Then the wild beams began to play on the canal, following the serenata, lighting up now the palaces on either hand, now some single gondola, revealing every figure and gesture of the laughing English or Americans who filled it, in a hard white flash. "Oh! listen, Kitty!" said Margaret. "Some one is going to sing 'Ché faro."
I do not know if that SERENATA all right for young ladies. Down there it is more for married ladies. They sing it for husbands or somebody else, may-bee." Johnny's eyes twinkled and he apologized gracefully with his shoulders. He sat down at the table, and while Thea looked over his arm, began to write the song down in a long, slanting script, with highly ornamental capitals.
She doesn't get it from me." "Would mademoiselle understand, for instance, these lines from one of our Corsican songs in which a shepherd says to his shepherdess: "S'entrassi 'ndru paradisu santu, santu, E nun truvassi a tia, mi n'escriria." Serenata di Zicavo. Miss Lydia did understand.
This isn't Como. 'I? said Nan, sharply. 'What have I to do with it? He can go or stay as he pleases. 'Besides, continued Edith, 'in consequence of this tempo cattivo 'I suppose that means weather that rains cats and dogs, said Nan, whose anger was of the briefest duration. the grand Serenata is put off till to-morrow night. Now he ought to stay and see the illuminations of the boats.
The procession had slowly departed. The Serenata was taking place somewhere else. The gardens of this hotel were silent but for the occasional voices of Frank King and his companions. Well, they laughed away their disappointment; and chatted pleasantly, and enjoyed the beautiful night, until Miss Beresford thought it was time for them to go indoors. 'But where's Nan? she said.
Mary continued to talk about the serenata, and Kitty was presently conscious that her every word and gesture in reply was closely watched. "Yes, yes, she saw him. Perhaps she'll tell William or write home to mother?"
A Trio, a dulcet, tender song of the wood, precedes the return of the Scherzo that ends with the speaking cadence from the first Allegro. A Serenata must be regarded as a kind of Intermezzo, in the Cantilena manner, with an accompanying rhythm suggesting an ancient Spanish dance. It stands as a foil between the gaiety of the Scherzo and the jubilation of the Finale.
A gondola at the very edge of the serenata contained one figure beside the gondolier, a man in a large cloak and slouch hat, sitting very still with folded arms. As Kitty looked, hearing the beating of her heart, their own boat was suddenly lit up. The light passed in a second, and while it lasted those in the flash could see nothing outside it. When it withdrew all was in darkness.
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