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The air, brilliantly transparent, carries a twang of frost. Evening is bathed in an effulgence of colour. The sky flames in startling reds and yellows blending into opals and turquoise, with the shadowy hills lying in a purple haze in the west. Then comes night and the aurora. Wavering fingers of light steal up from the northern horizon.
'Talli ho! 'Talli ho! 'Talli ho! 'Hoop! 'Hoop! 'Hoop! cried a score of voices, and 'Twang! twang! twang! went the shrill horn of the huntsman. The whips, too, stood in their stirrups, cracking their ponderous thongs, which sounded like guns upon the frosty air, and contributed their 'Get together! get together, hounds! 'Hark away! 'Hark away! 'Hark away! 'Hark' to the general uproar.
Then the daughter followed, and vanished also under the shady veranda. There was a quick sound of women's low, apologetic voices, overridden by the resentful abuse of the man. The lovers moved out of hearing. 'Imagine that breakfast-table! said Siegmund. 'I feel, said Helena, with a keen twang of contempt in her voice, 'as if a fussy cock and hens had just scuffled across my path.
But when I got back to the Garter, what should I find but that poor old Martin had been stricken with the dead palsy while he was playing his rebeck, and would never twang a note more; and there was pretty Perronel weeping over him, and Nat Fire-eater pledging his word to give the old man bed, board, and all that he could need, if so be that Perronel should be trained to be one of his glee-maidens, to dance and tumble and sing.
In consequence of the blare of that conch and of the twang of Gandiva, the Kuru warriors, strong or weak, all fell down on the ground. The car of Arjuna then freed from that press, looked resplendent like a cloud driven by the wind. Indeed, those mighty bowmen, the protectors of the ruler of Sindhus, suddenly beholding Partha, uttered loud shouts, filling the earth with that noise.
At the first sound of their voices Lucian detected so pronounced a twang, and so curious a way of collocating words, as to conclude that Mrs. Vrain and her amiable parent hailed from the States. The little lady seemed to pride herself on this, and indicated her republican origin in her speech more than was necessary at least, Denzil thought so.
He spoke rarely and solemnly with a Maine coast Yankee twang. "I reckon so," was all he said. He sat down on the bench beside the other man who went on bitterly: "I guess you would reckon so.... Hell, man, you ditch diggers ain't in it." "Ditch diggers!" The engineer banged his fist down on the table. His lean pickled face was a furious red.
It was that of one of the native guides. Voices were heard coming through the passage: one voice had a twang to it that surely Mrs. Peterkin had heard before. Another head appeared now, bound with a blue veil, while the eyes were hidden by green goggles. Yet Mrs. Peterkin could not be mistaken, it was yes, it was the head of Elizabeth Eliza!
Then, the steamer's paddles revolved, the steel hawser, stretched over her towing-horse astern and attached to our bows, tightened with a sort of musical twang as it became rigid like a bar of iron; and, in another minute or so, the Silver Queen was under good way, sailing down the Thames outwards bound.
The natives were drawing palm-tree wine, a thing forbidden by law; and when the wind thus suddenly revealed them, they were doubtless more troubled than ourselves. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to sea in his youth in the American whalers; a circumstance to which he owed his name, his English, his down-east twang, and the misfortune of his innocent life.
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