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Often during the rainy nights I was startled by this sound of the incessantly falling nuts, that banged and rattled like round shot over my head. But on this night, as I composed myself to slumber again, my drowsy ears were uneasy with another thing, less a sound than an almost noiseless, thrumming vibration, faint, but disturbing. I sat up in my Golden Bed, and listened.
I give you my word, sir he reeled! I thought Lady Chetwoode would have fainted: she turned as pale as her gown, and but for her innate pluck would have cried aloud. It was insufferable, Fabian. Waste no more words over him, for go he shall." "After all these years," says Fabian, thoughtfully, thrumming gently on the table near him with his forefinger.
I turned to the stage, and there stood a young girl, but little more than a child, holding her piece of music in her hand, and singing, to the thrumming accompaniment of a wheezy piano, a sweet old ballad. The girl was slight of frame and small, not more than about five feet high. She was timid, for that was her first appearance, as the play-bills stated; and the hand trembled that held the music.
While her mind groped, the lights of a motor car swooped round a bend in the road, and they stood farther apart. "What ought I to do?" she mused. "I think Oh, I won't be robbed! I AM good! If I'm so enslaved that I can't sit by the fire with a man and talk, then I'd better be dead!" The lights of the thrumming car grew magically; were upon them; abruptly stopped.
Considering that he had fully performed his duty, he said no more. That evening, Sylvia, who had been gently thrumming to herself at the window, began singing "Bonnie Peggie Alison." Her father looked at De Courcy, who caught his glance, then lowered his eyes, and turned to leave the room.
"After all," thought the baron, as be passed into the principal room of the Blue tavern, and proposed the national song of "Rule Britannia," "after all, Avenel hates Egerton as much as I do, and both sides work to the same end." And thrumming on the table, he joined with a fine lass in the famous line, "For Britons never will be slaves!"
I put my hand to my mouth. "Nick!" I shouted. There came for an answer, with the careless and unskilful thrumming of the guitar, the end of the verse: "Thine eyes are bright as the stars at night, Thy cheeks like the rose of the dawning, oh!" "Helas!" exclaimed Hippolyte, sadly, "there is no other boat." "Nick!" I shouted again, reenforced vociferously by the others.
"Oh, bring me half a dozen; that's enough after wine." Quibbles departed on his mission. "This is a nice place, Pratt, to tell secrets in; don't you think so?" "I do, indeed," said Arthur, looking around with a knowing air, and thrumming on the table with his fingers. The clerk at this moment returned with cigars and wine glasses, and drew the cork of the wine bottle. "Quibbles." "Yes, sir."
The speed at which the Fleet was travelling sent the wind thrumming through the halliards and funnel stays and past Thorogood's ears with a little whistling noise; otherwise few sounds reached him at the altitude at which he stood. On the signal-platform below, a number of signalmen were grouped round the flag-lockers with the halliards in their hands in instant readiness to hoist a signal.
Dangerfield. Puddock also saluted, still thrumming a low chord or two as he did so, for he was not ashamed, like his stout playmate, and saw nothing incongruous in their early minstrelsy. The fact is, these gallant officers were rehearsing a pretty little entertainment they designed for the ladies at Belmont.
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