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As it was, we heard the music and the applause, and now and then an actor's stentorian tones, when we chose to listen. Mrs. P and my wife, U and Master Bob, sat in a group together, and chatted in one corner of our aerial drawing-room, while Mr. Powers and myself leaned against the parapet, and talked of innumerable things.
Edith faltered her thanks, and went on. "That's the queen," said her companion. "The queen!" Edith's hasty tones betrayed her surprise. "Yes; it's Norah. They're all afraid of her. I'm glad she saw us. She's as strong as a man."
At length, when he had come up to me for the fourth time, and for the fourth time had accosted me, my ear caught something in the tones of his voice which did not seem to me wholly unfamiliar. I regarded him with more attention than I had as yet done, and replied to him more civilly and at length. Apparently encouraged by this relaxation from my reserve, the man speedily resumed.
Something in the strained tones moved her to an unexpected feeling of compassion. It was the voice of a man in the extremity of mental anguish. Silently she opened the door of the dressing-room and signed to him to follow her. "Well," she said, facing him, "what is it? Why have you come?" The impulse of compassion died out suddenly. His was the hand that had destroyed her happiness.
She loved and she was loved; at any rate, she believed that she was loved; and what woman would not likewise have believed after seeing Rastignac's face and listening to the tones of his voice during that hour snatched under the Argus eyes of the Maison Vauquer?
Can't ye stay just the same? Have you really made up your mind about this American notion? I won't mince matters. I feel you would be invaluable to me that needn't be said and if you will bide and be my manager, I will make it worth your while." "My plans are fixed," said the young man, in negative tones. "I have formed a scheme, and so we need na say any more about it.
Poor child! the echoes of thy eager voice, prolonged by every projecting headland of the valley, replied in mocking tones, "Come quickly!" Bewildered she paused, listened breathlessly, and again she called, "Father, come quickly, come!" and again the deceitful sounds were repeated, "Quickly come!"
They approached the spot whence the extraordinary tones issued, and saw a poor blind man standing near a miserable-looking candle and playing upon a violin but the latter was an instrument made of tin-plate. "Fancy!" exclaimed Viotti, "it is a violin, but a violin of tin-plate!
Yet it must have been my fault, not his, that I failed to recognize him; for every bird's voice has something characteristic about it, just as every human voice has tones and inflections which those who are sufficiently familiar with its owner will infallibly detect. The ear feels them, although words cannot describe them.
The admirable Peters, who opened to her, said that his master had not been very well, and was just then asleep, but as they spoke together in low tones the old gentleman cried, testily, from within: "Well? Well? Who's there? Who wants to see me? Who is it?" Miss Benham went into the dim, shaded room, and when old David saw who it was he sank back upon his pillows with a pacified growl.
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