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"But what's said?" inquired my grandfather, when the smith had fetched his breath. "Naebody can weel tell," was his response; "a' that's come this length is but the sough afore the storm.
The keys seemed to whisper to him, so gently did he touch them, and their tones fell, not upon his ears, but upon his heart, with a soothing pathos like the sough of an old song or a sweet, forgotten odor of a day that is past. Billy did his best to console Rita, though it was a hopeless task and full of peril for him. There was but one topic of interest to her. Rome and Greece were dull.
Over and over the same round his thoughts went, till, worn out with anxiety and watching, and lulled unconsciously by the soft "sough" of the wind in the pines, he fell asleep. Pine-tree Hollow was all in shadow when he awoke, but when he had gone a few steps, he saw the sunlight lying on the high hills to the east.
As I came to the landing place at the head of the stairway, one passed hastily before me and above me, with a sough and a rustle like the wind among tall poplar trees on the canal edges. I looked up, and lo! a girl, not beautiful, but, as it were, rather strange and fascinating. She was lithe like a serpent and undulated in her walk.
There was the "sough" of the sea, as it came swelling up the gorge; the "whish" of the wind, as it impinged upon the crests of the ridges; and the "swish" of the sand as it settled round them. All these were voices of inanimate objects, phenomena of nature, easily understood.
One and another sough of the wind had bowed the tree-tops with a token of what was coming; one and another bright flash of lightning had illumined the woody wilderness; and now, just as the chair stopped, drops began to fall which seemed as large as cherry- stones, mingled with hail a good deal larger. Their patter sounded on the leaves a minute or two; then ceased.
Above the sough of the stream, I heard noises. The intonation of the red man's voice was easily recognised. There were Indians in front of me! Were they coming or going? The voices grew louder as I listened the speakers were nearing me. My first thought was to glide behind the trees; but a glance showed me that these were not tall enough. They were mere bushes.
And hark thee, we are now bound for Holyrood, where thou wilt find plenty of news, and of courtiers to tell it But, take my counsel, and keep a calm sough, as the Scots say hear every man's counsel, and keep your own. And if you hap to learn any news you like, leap not up as if you were to put on armour direct in the cause Our old Mr.
There's more gumption in a page of John Stuart Mill than in all that foreign trash. But, as I say, I've got to keep a quiet sough, for the world is gettin' socialism now like the measles. It all comes of a defective eddication. 'And what does a Border radical say about the war? I asked. He took off his spectacles and cocked his shaggy brows at me. 'I'll tell ye, Mr Brand.
The sounds that sprinkled the general stillness were in themselves sleepy notes of the pervasive music of somnolent nature the sough of the pine at the door, the murmur of insect life, the low, thudding beat of the steam-thresher out of sight hard by, the purring of the cat in the arms of Kitty Tynan as, with fascinated eyes, she listened to a man tell the tale of a life as distant from that which she lived as she was from Eve.
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