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Heedless of power, of honours, of wealth; and indifferent to the fluctuations of times; the rise or fall of grain, or stock, or empires, they seem to laugh at the tolling, fretting world around them, and to live according to the philosophy of the old song: "Who would ambition shun, And loves to lie i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats, And pleased with what he gets, Come hither, come hither, come hither; Here shall he see No enemy, But winter and rough weather."
I had never seen it in prosperity, and it now looked like a city of the plague, represented by empty dogs and empty houses; and, but for the tolling of a convent-bell by some unseen hand, its appearance was altogether inhuman. We halted for the night near Pyrnes.
A relative tells me there is one of great glory in Andover, near Bradford. My room-mate thought, when he first came, it was the bell tolling deaths, and people's ages, as they do in the country. Of course, this is not the tree my relative means. Also, I have a very pretty letter from Norwich, in Connecticut, telling me of two noble elms which are to be seen in that town.
The clash of swords and roar of voices, the dust and heat and pressure, the trampling under foot of men, the distracted looks and shrieks of women at the windows above as they recognised their relatives or lovers in the crowd, the rapid tolling of alarm-bells, the furious rage and passion of the scene, were fearful.
'There Konrad's den and merry men Will safely hold the boys The Prince shall grieve long ere we leave Our hold upon his joys. 'But hark! but hark! how through the dark The castle bell is tolling, From tower and town o'er wood and down, The like alarm notes rolling. 'The peal rings out! echoes the shout! All Saxony's astir; Groom, turn aside, swift must we ride Through the lone wood of fir.
"Hush!" again said Constantia: adding, "Do you not hear?" "Hear? I hear nothing but the tolling of the midnight bell 'Tis twelve o'clock." "It is," said Constantia, in a voice trembling with intense suffering; "it is twelve o'clock My wedding-day is indeed come!"
Sure of Clark, he kept on, his black and savage heart leaping with joy in anticipation of torturing him. After tolling the Indian some little distance and coming to a turn in the road, Clark let his horse out and did not slacken his speed until our camp was reached. As may be well imagined, we did not spare our horses on the return, Clark having been provided with a fresh animal.
A hush deeper of the sound and he was wondering if another illusion were not upon him, when again the bell! "Oh!" he muttered, "a trick of the monks in Otranto! Some soul is passing." He pressed forward, guided by the tolling. Suddenly the trees fell away, and the road brought him to a stone wall heavily coped.
She forgot Willoughby, in her father, who would not quit a comfortable house for her all but prostrate beseeching; would not bend his mind to her explanations, answered her with the horrid iteration of such deaf misunderstanding as may be associated with a tolling bell. De Craye allowed her to catch Crossjay by herself.
Now had the whole office been said in chapels and in parish churches, and they were continually tolling as it is meet to toll for the dead. They bid the body be brought, and it will be placed in the tomb, whereat John has worked to such effect that he has made it very magnificent and splendid.
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