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Updated: May 26, 2025
In vain the Hottentot boys rushed in among them, endeavouring by soft blandishments to induce them to move. The Kaffirs swore in strange-sounding tones, and Denis flew here and there, poking one, lashing another, hauling at the head of a third, his example being followed by the other Englishmen. Their leader rode forward, merely observing
He half-stood on the tongue, to bring his legs down on a level with Zene's, and enjoyed the jolting in every piece of his backbone. He had had a surfeit of woman-society. Even the horsey smell of Zene's clothes was found agreeable. And above all, he wanted to talk about J. D. Matthews, and tell the terrors of a bottomless ford and a house with a strange-sounding cellar.
"To be sure we're tired and hungry, and it's not an easy business to unpack the panniers, but anything to please master and missy." Just then the other woman, who had been standing apart with the big boy all this time, called out something in the same strange-sounding language.
I will also call my mousmé Kikou, Kikou-San; this name suits her better than Chrysanthème, which though translating the sense exactly, does not preserve the strange-sounding euphony of the original. I therefore say to Kikou, my wife: "Play, play on for me; I shall remain here all the evening and listen to you."
Just then the child opened her large blue eyes, and after looking about with a startled expression, asked, "Where ayah?" and then spoke some words in a strange-sounding language, which neither the fisherman nor his wife could understand.
It was a strange-sounding hymn, as well it might be, for everybody joined in it: there were voices of all kinds, of men, of women, and of children—of those who could sing and of those who could not—a thousand voices all joined, and all joined heartily; no voice of all the multitude was silent save mine.
He saw the fire upon his hearth and he saw a figure standing by the fire. It was Thetis, his wife. The fire was blazing around something that she held in her hands. And while she stood there she was singing to herself a strange-sounding song. And then he saw what Thetis held in her hands and what the fire was blazing around; it was the child, Achilles.
It was a strange-sounding hymn, as well it might be, for everybody joined in it: there were voices of all kinds, of men, of women, and of children of those who could sing and of those who could not a thousand voices all joined, and all joined heartily; no voice of all the multitude was silent save mine.
Once, during that pause, he sees her fixed eyes turn slowly to his mother's picture he hears low, strange-sounding words drop from her lips: "He swore by your dying bed, and see how he keeps his oath!" Then the life that seems to have died from her face flames back. Without speaking to him, without looking at him, she turns to leave the room. On the threshold she pauses and looks back.
It was a strange-sounding hymn, as well it might be, for everybody joined in it: there were voices of all kinds, of men, of women, and of children of those who could sing and of those who could not a thousand voices all joined, and all joined heartily; no voice of all the multitude was silent save mine.
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