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Further on, however, they came to a number of villages, some of which had been destroyed by the Felatahs, their walls being already covered with weeds. As they approached Katunga, the capital of Youriba, the caboceer, with an enormous escort, came out to meet them. His musicians kept drumming, playing, dancing, and singing all night. The country round was well-cultivated.
There was no singing aloud of mournful carols either, but my heart made a quiet and wistful music of its own. I thought that I should have liked a more grave and ancient mode of conveyance; but how silly to desire that!
Among the letters were little songs, two of which I had heard the strange young voice singing in the orchard, and, of course, there were many withered flowers and such like remembrances of bygone rapture.
So one may see that there are actually as many methods as there are singers, and any particular method, even if accurately set forth, might be useless to the person who tried it. This is what I really would reply to anyone putting this question to me that my own particular way of singing, if I have any, is, after all, peculiarly suited to me only, as I have above described.
They were about to pass on without interfering with her in any way, when one of their party remarked that it was odd that all the noise they had made had not wakened her, for they had come along laughing, singing, and talking loudly. This had led them to approach closely to her; and then, as they looked at her, a suspicion of the truth began to come to their minds.
The men went off singing, six men to each section, and in the afternoon the Okapi was once more in her proper element. "And which way will you go, Ngonyama?" "We have thought it over during the rains, chief.
Back home! She had prayed to God when utter undoing seemed inevitable, when death had seemed more desirable than life, and He had answered. He had sent Mark King to her! She was saved, and though it was cold and dark and still, she felt her heart singing within her.
Later on, because it was cold, she turned and went into the house, singing a song to herself as she moved.
An hour later "Rip" Van Winkle and Subway Smith were singing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden," to the uncertain accompaniment of Pettingill's violin, when the electric bell again disturbed the company. "For Heaven's sake!" shouted Harrison, who had been singing "With All Thy Faults I Love Thee Still," to Pettingill's lay figure.
And this hymn are many of the islanders daily wont to sing, and from its repetition they affirm many and great wonders to have happened; for divers, while singing this hymn, have passed unseen through their enemies who were thirsting for their blood, and who were stricken with that sort of blindness which physicians term acrisia. The Soul of a Certain Sinner is by Saint Patrick freed from Demons.
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