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Flags hung half-mast high, the guns had boomed a salute, and the bells of the city had tolled in solemn cadence as the coffin was borne to the quay and reverently carried to the place prepared for it upon the ship. Now all was bustle and animated farewell as the sailors began to make preparations for unfurling the sails and hoisting up the anchor.
From one of the city clocks the hour was slowly tolled. Philip counted the strokes one, two, three, four, five. Then, almost as he was preparing to leave his post, there came a terrific roar. The window against which he leaned shook. Some of the buildings in the distance trembled.
They were enjoying themselves as much as it is in the power of human nature to enjoy itself; they had proposed all manner of toasts, and had drunk them with cheers, and the mirth was at its loudest when the clock of the village church boomed out solemnly upon the stillness of night, and tolled the hour of ten. The three men staggered hastily to their feet.
She felt sure that the tried friend and adoptive father of her faithful Philippus would take her part. But what was this? The old man seemed to measure her height in a glance which struck to her heart with its fierce enmity, and then he said deliberately: "On the morning of the nuns' flight the accused, Paula, went to the convent and there tolled the bell.
Before he could collect his senses the jangling broke into a series of terrific detonations, in the midst of which the bell in the roof tolled one awful stroke and ceased. "I leave to your imagination the sight that met his eyes when, lantern in hand, he reached the mortuary door.
Recent events led by the ugly publicity of Reginald Sawyer's sermon served to revive those colours. To-day they glowed rich and splendid, a robing of sombre glory to her inward and backward searching sight. The bell tolled quicker, announcing the immediate approach of the dead.
Every timber complained with whining iteration, and the boom of the full, falling seas tolled as a bell tolls that beats out the last minutes of a mortal's life. The Cockney poet sings "A cheer for the hard, glad weather, The quiver and beat of the sea!" Shade of Rodney! What does the man know about it?
The death of Icarus is told in the following lines by Darwin: "... with melting wax and loosened strings Sunk hapless Icarus on unfaithful wings; Headlong he rushed through the affrighted air, With limbs distorted and dishevelled hair; His scattered plumage danced upon the wave, And sorrowing Nereids decked his watery grave; O'er his pale corse their pearly sea-flowers shed, And strewed with crimson moss his marble bed; Struck in their coral towers the passing bell, And wide in ocean tolled his echoing knell."
At sunset sundry city bells were tolled for an hour to signify the public mourning at his downfall. When he mounted the platform at night to address a crowd of some five thousand listeners he was surrounded by a little knot of personal friends, but the audience before him was evidently cold if not actively hostile. He began his speech, defending his course as well as he could.
In part, I suppose, my tears were tears of joy for the very joyousness of these men; in part, of envy for their fine simplicity; in part, of sorrow in the thought that they were a survival of the past, not types of the present, and that their knell would soon be tolled, and the old elm see their like no more. After they had drunk some ale, they formed up for the second dance a circular dance.
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