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The stalls were swathed in holland covers, and there was a brooding warm desolation which invited undertones. Barbara looked with growing interest at a sprawling group of two men and three women on the stage.
Rowan came the next afternoon. She was in the library; and he went in and shut the door, and they were left alone. Professor Hardage and Miss Anna sat in an upper room. He had no book and she had no work; they were thinking only of the two downstairs. And they spoke to each other in undertones, breaking the silence with brief sentences, as persons speak when awaiting news from sick-rooms.
Many a poor fellow wrote his last sentence in his note-book that night by the dim light of these smothered fires, and sat and talked in undertones of home, wife, and mother, sister or sweetheart. Promises were made to take care of each other, if wounded, or send word home, if slain; keepsakes were looked at again for the last time, and silent prayers were offered by men unused to look above.
None of these first undertones of the spring symphony went unmarked by Doris Cleveland. She could hear and feel. She could respond to subtle, external stimuli. She could interpret her thoughts and feelings with apt phrases, with a whimsical humor, sometimes with an appealing touch of wistfulness.
The roar of the rapids, which at first sounded so loud, grew duller and fainter as they penetrated the wood until it became like the moaning of the distant ocean. The men spoke in guarded undertones and were able to hear each other plainly, while eyes and ears were on the alert, for the first sight or sound of danger.
The growls came in various undertones from the Committee. "What foreman? Hoddle?" The boss was ready to fight for his subalterns. "No! Old Hoddle's all right," said Gilby. "It's that young smart aleck, Tony Perrotte." "Tony Perrotte!" Mr. Maitland's voice was troubled and uncertain. "Tony Perrotte! Why, you don't mean to tell me that Perrotte is not a good man.
For better, for worse, we had to go with the donkey. "Don't cry, for goodness' sake!" said Oswald in stern undertones. "Bite your lips. Take long breaths. Don't let him see we mind. This beast's only the village police. Sir James will be a gentleman. He'll understand. Don't disgrace the house of Bastable. Look here! Fall into line no, Indian file will be best, there are so few of us.
If Berger be informed that Noyez has been captured is it not likely that Berger will then tell of this accused man's work?" "Excellent suggestion! We shall soon know!" exclaimed General Bazain, touching a bell. Through the orderly who answered, three staff officers were summoned. To these the general gave his orders in undertones in a corner of the room.
And for that very reason he may be said to have seen yet more clearly than Hazlitt saw, how inseparable is the tie that binds poetry to life. It is not only in its deeper undertones, Lamb seems to remind us, but in its finest shades of voice and phrasing, that poetry is the echo of some mood or temper of the soul.
"Bless the fellow!" said the youngish professor. "What an original!" It was now my turn to move towards the table, but the professors went on talking in undertones among themselves, as though they were unaware of my presence.
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