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Nothing is more fantastically unreal to tell about, nothing more concretely real to experience, than this undernote of the quick water. And when you do lie awake at night, it is always making its unobtrusive appeal. Gradually its hypnotic spell works. The distant chimes ring louder and nearer as you cross the borderland of sleep. And then outside the tent some little woods noise snaps the thread.
It was the voice he had imagined for her low, and round, and clear, with just an undernote of plaintiveness matching the wistful appeal of her eyes. At the first sound of it a shudder of exquisite delight went through him, as though she had touched him with her slender white, bare hand on the naked breast. "Thank you for not quite forgetting.
Like a low, sweet undernote, the sea came rolling in upon the firm sands out to the west it stretched like a sheet of softly swaying inland water. For those few moments there seemed no note of discord and then the harsh whistle of an approaching train! They took hold of hands and ran. It was, perhaps, as well that their farewells were cut short.
"My dear boy, I intend to tell you all that I know and can verify." The silky smoothness of the magnate's tones had deepened in spite of himself, with a steely undernote. "I don't know when the project which spelled his ruin was first conceived by Mr. Lawton, but I believe that he started to put it into active operation over three years ago.
He was still flashily dressed, with much obvious jewellery and the shiniest of patent boots, but his general bearing and appearance had altered for the worse. His cheeks were puffy, and his eyes blood-shot. He had the appearance of a man who has known no rest for many nights. His voice when he spoke was almost fiercely assertive, but there was an undernote of nervousness. "Why not?" he exclaimed.
"In a way, I should be content to stay here for ever," she answered. "If you and I only could be here why, Arnold, it is like Heaven! Just close your eyes as I have been doing like that. Now listen. There isn't any undernote, none of that ceaseless, awful monotony of sound that seems like the falling of weary men's feet upon the eternal pavement.
"So I did, so I do, unless you decide to. And if you undertake this project, I pledge myself to see you through." His voice caught a pleading undernote. "It rests with you. Above every one it rests with you to even things for Weatherbee. Isn't that clear to you?
"Could ye " he halted and spoke in a tense undernote of hope that hardly dared voice itself "could ye bend down ter me an' kiss me ... ergin?" She could and did. Then with her young arms under his head and her own head bowed until her lips pressed his, the dry-eyed, heart-cramping suspense of these anxious days broke in a freshet of unrestrained tears.
Once or twice her eyes challenged his, half-puzzled, half-defiant. Her quick perception detected his critical attitude, and in her present mood the undernote of antagonism acted as a spur rather than a check upon the dare-devil strain in her, which was responsible for her odd mingling of folly and heroic self-devotion.
That's why I cut it out. I came here to make something of myself I owe it to dad, who's putting up the cash, and I'm not going to disappoint him. Then, too, you old scout, I suppose you wouldn't let me go sporting around the way I used to." "Not much!" laughed Andy, but there was an undernote of seriousness in his words. There was nothing new in Link's case.
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