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The noise of the engines is not disliked, nor are its puffings and groanings held to be unmusical. With us a locomotive steam-engine is still, as it were, a beast of prey, against which one has to be on one's guard in respect to which one specially warns the children.
A crowd collected in rear of the Government buildings; and squatting upon mats on the ground were the musicians, three or four in number, beating away vigorously at their very unmusical drums just the size and shape of a flat cheese, their drumsticks being shaped like a crook. Soon the war-dancers appeared upon the scene, each with a whoop and a flourish of his knife or tomahawk.
"Oh, you been here before," she said, in a thin voice, not unmusical. "I recollect you. Quite a time ago, wa'n't it?" "Yes, quite a long time." "I recollect because I recollect you was disappointed. Anyway, you was kind of cross." She laughed faintly. "I'm sorry if I seemed so," Eugene said. "Do you happen to have found out my name?" She looked surprised and a little reproachful. "Why, no.
The latter crab climbed upon a flat rock and in an excited voice called out, "Ready, now ready, good fiddlers. We'll play Number 19, Hail to the Mermaids. Ready! Take aim! Fire away!" At this command every crab began scraping at his fiddle as hard as he could, and the sounds were so shrill and unmusical that Trot wondered when they would begin to play a tune.
The whistle stopped abruptly, and the voice of a boy, passing along the crowded platform, claimed all Sound for its own. "Chor-or-or-clicks!" he cried in a not unmusical jodelling treble, "Chorclicks! Cigarettes!" The platform was thronged by bluejackets and marines, for on this particular evening the period of leave, granted by some battleship in the North, had expired.
No; but of our child. It is he whom you are to correct and improve. By these means even when we are grown up, we appear children. For an unmusical person is a child in music; an illiterate person, a child in learning; and an untaught one, a child in life. Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
"Good night!" said Earl, in reply to their thanks and adieus; " 'taint anything to thank a body for let me know when you're a-goin' into the sugar-making, and I'll come and help you." "How sweet a pleasant message may make an unmusical tongue!" said Fleda, as she and Hugh made their way up to the house. "We had a stupid enough afternoon," said Hugh. "But the ride home was worth it all!"
And as it came in view he would always say, in a sort of recitative, perhaps reminiscent of Scott's narrative poems, which he was at that time reading aloud to us, "There is of Bebbington the holy peak!" To which I would as constantly rejoin, "'Of Bebbington the holy spire, father!" being offended by his use of a word so unmusical as peak. He would only smile and trudge onward.
His voice was good, but his intonation unmusical, and he invariably ended his sentences on too high a note; but his fiery rhetoric carried the audience almost completely with him, and he was cheered again and again to the echo. Many a fine, stalwart peasant said to me, during the great era of the Monster Meetings, "I'm afraid, sir, we'll never get the union without fighting for it."
One ironically minded would have said she chirruped, for her words came out in not unmusical, if staccato, notes, and she shook her shrivelled, ringed fingers reprovingly at a stalwart young man. Once or twice, as she seemed to threaten him with what the poet called "The slow, unmoving finger of scorn," he giggled. It was evident that he was at once amused and troubled.
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