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Somewhere in its boat of song, the nightingale was floating on the sea of darkness. Drawn aimlessly by the pathos of the songster's lay, Carter wandered to the window to gaze out into the moonless midnight. Racking his quivering heart, his imagination dwelt on a pictured life with Trusia, emphasizing the sweet moments of her complete surrender. Time lost all measure in his rhapsody.
Such happenings, of course; but nothing that ever brought those things for which one, wakening in the night, lay and prayed while forced by the songster's rapture to "listen to the mocking-bird."
Lorand, the smiling and gay Lorand, was thinking that he had but one more day to live; and then adieu to the perfumed fields, adieu to the songster's echo, adieu to the beautiful, love-lorn gypsy girl! They went arm-in-arm across the bridge, that little bridge that spanned the brook.
But as soon as the winter clouds have bloomed, and the mountain treasuries are once more replenished with snow, the voices of the streams and ouzels increase in strength and richness until the flood season of early summer. Then the torrents chant their noblest anthems, and then is the flood-time of our songster's melody. As for weather, dark days and sun days are the same to him.
One or two turned to glance at me, but when their gaze met mine they despatched their eyes on some impartial quest, as if caressing their noble church or looking for some lingering friend. The precentor, whose place was in a kind of songster's pulpit just below me, was wreathed in the complacent air of a man who has discharged a lofty duty and has done it well.
'Let's see Nutter you or I must go we'll take one of these songster's "noddies." A 'noddy' give me leave to remark, was the one-horse hack vehicle of Dublin and the country round, which has since given place to the jaunting car, which is, in its turn, half superseded by the cab. And Devereux, followed by Toole, entered the front parlour again.
It was worth while to have come into the country ahead of time, as city people reckon, to get my fill of this Northern songster's music.
Then the delicious melody, the approving comments of the songster's companions, and the efforts of ambitious youngsters to imitate and excel, are all part of a quaint entertainment. All the forest brood do not plot mutual slaughter. Some live in strict amity.