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...e attention of the company and skilfully led it to a discussion of matters musical. “Will you tell me, monsieur,” said he to the composer of dance-mus... ...ged from generalities to talk of him- self, of his life, his work, and the musical regeneration of which he believed himself to be the Messiah. “Liste... ...ser,” the musician began. “Thus at an early age I had mastered the laws of musical construction in its twofold aspects, the ma- terial and the spiritu... ...y reigns supreme, instead of being the founda- tion from which the melodic groups of the musical picture stand forth. These discordant combinations, f... ...bling scene in which Bertram tortures his son by rousing him to tremendous emo- tions. Robert, beggared, frenzied, searching everything, ea- ger for b...

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... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ...as to meet the friends with whom her feelings were at home, among whom her musical gifts gave her station: they liked her for herself; they helped her... ...n Victor’s Con- cert-room with an easy homely recognition of one another’s musical qualities, at times enthusiastic; and their natural di- vergencies ... ...g may have helped; he had it from Fenellan; and he was among the principal groups, claiming or making acquaintances, as a lawyer should do. The Concer... ...ouch him. Why was that? Perhaps for the reason of Mr. Posterley’s being so emo- tional as perpetually to fall a victim to some bright glance and requi... ...grey for flights through enchantment. Cottage-chil- dren, wherever seen in groups, she wreathed above with an- gels to watch them. Her mind all the wh... ...utive thin black figure, elvish, irreverent, appallingly unlike his proper emo- tion; and he brought his hands just to touch, and got to the edge of h... ...at this act of the justifying of the act reproached him with a lack of due emo- tion, in sympathy with agonized friends truly dear. Drawing near the h...

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...d. At a respectful distance from this unusual show, were gath- ered divers groups of curious idlers; some admiring the blood and bone of the high-mett... ...nce interrupting, and, for the time, closing 23 James Fenimore Cooper his musical efforts. “Though we are not in danger, common prudence would teach ... ...ow, guttural tones, which render his language, as spoken at times, so very musical; “then, Hawkeye, we were one people, and we were happy. The salt la... ...mperfect, but sufficiently intelligible, and which he rendered so mild and musical, by his deep, guttural voice, that it never failed to cause both la... ...d his eyes around the plain, and beheld with uneasiness the numerous dusky groups of savages, who looked out from the margin of the surrounding woods,... ...s red associ- ate, however, was superior to such a weakness. He passed the groups of dead with a steadiness of purpose, and an eye so calm, that nothi... ...t personal danger, the countenance of the young warrior expressed no other emo- tion, as the former was compelled to think, than amazement at finding ... ...nct, though it was quite evident that they were governed by very different emo- tions. While one stood erect and firm, prepared to meet his fate like ... ...ward the former, though no opportunity could offer to exhibit his generous emo- tions. He watched his slightest movement, however, with ea- ger eyes; ...

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...rmill; men whistled at the plough; gleaners and haymakers were seen in quiet groups at work; sheep and oxen pastured; boys whooped and called, in fie... ...e breakfast. For he was a great philoso pher, Doctor Jeddler, and not very musical. ‘Music and dancing to day !’ said the Doctor, stopping short, a... ... freehold, and copy hold estate; think,’ said Mr. Snitchey, with such great emo The Battle of Life 14 tion that he actually smacked his lips, ‘of t... ...old trees between the light and him. He knew that one of those trees rustled musically in the summer time at the window of Marion’s chamber. The tears... ...hat he was recognised. ‘You remember me, sir?’ said Clemency, trembling with emo tion; ‘I saw just now you did! You remember me, that night in the ga...

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...ENS ENS ENS WHEN I RETURNED to the common the sun was setting. Scat- tered groups were hurrying from the direction of Woking, and one or two persons w... ...the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atm... ...could be going on there? Most of the spectators had gathered in one or two groups— one a little crowd towards Woking, the other a knot of people in th... ...ly into the quiet air. As I looked, the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a ten- tacle that had been ... ...r vast dead city of mine be once more alive and powerful, I felt a wave of emo- tion that was near akin to tears. The torment was over. Even that day ...

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...all indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emo tions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the ... ... passed the bottle joyously. After tea. they had some music. For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or C... ...rried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thought fully with thei... ...e met. Bye, bye.’ Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups. Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explan...

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... and of the methods of intercourse and collective decision that hold human groups together, and finally of government and the State. The eluci- dation... ... be a great multitude of gracious little houses clustering in college-like groups, no doubt about their com- mon kitchens and halls, down and about th... ... chance light on the labour prob- lem—by perforating records for automatic musical ma- chines—no doubt of the Pianotist and Pianola kind—and he spent ... ..., high above the level this took. The houses clustered in their collegiate groups over by the high road, and near the subordinate way that ran almost ... ...tive incapacity for organisation and combination, and the possibilities of emo- tional complications whenever she is in economic depen- dence on men. ... ...mysteries and ma- ternal dignitaries that one would approach in a state of emo- tional excitement and seclude piously when serious work was in hand. A... ...res from them. “It’s different here,” I persist. “It’s different here. The emo- tion you feel has no place in it. It’s a scar from the earth— the sore...

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...the rumble of barrels, the scratch of rapid pens; while above all rose the musical chink of broad silver pieces streaming ceaselessly through the yell... ...ic duties and disregarding the possibilities of domestic discontent, while groups of children brought up the rear, warbling joyously, in the delight o... ...rnal hand. The men strolled slowly after them in ever forming and changing groups that gradually dis- solved as they neared the settlement and every m... ...e only signs of the storm raging within, and those signs of his daughter’s emo- tion Almayer did not see, for his sight was dimmed by self- pity, by a... ...o the riverside. The men began to unfasten their boats, the women stood in groups looking towards the bend down the river. Above the trees lining the ...

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... knew you would. There is nothing like music such as this to appeal to the emo- tions, the heart—and with your temperament” Straightway he made her fe... ...lmost as crowded as though at noontime. Messenger boys ran to and fro, and groups of men stood on the corners in earnest conversation. The whole neigh... ...ourhood. To the right, in the peristyle of the Illi- nois T rust Building, groups of clerks, of messengers, of bro- kers, of clients, and of depositor... ... Before this board files of chairs were placed, and these were occupied by groups of nondescripts, shabbily dressed men, young and old, with tired eye... ...s full of yellow envelopes. From the telephone alcoves came the prolonged, musical rasp of the call bells. In the Western Union booths the keys of the... ...after now,” sobbed Page, and as she spoke the Gretry girl, hypnotised with emo- tion and taken all unawares, gave vent to a shrill hic- cough, a verit... ...elodrama. She had a taste for the magnificent. She revelled in these great musical “effects” upon her organ, the grandiose eas- ily appealed to her, w... ...mmer evening widened, unbroken around her, like a vast calm pool. Only the musical Gregorians of the newsboys chanting the evening’s extras from corne...

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...he strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music. For our world is all but a sensati... ...as in the first conception of the edifice, backs were damp, boots liquidly musical, the pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty, with much pulling ... ...harmony. He sees all difficulties through his own sanguine hues. He is the musical poet of the problem, demanding merely to have it solved that he may... ...armly in contrition. And yet her friends were well-beloved by her; but her emo- tions were distraught. Emma told her that Mr. Redworth had undertaken ... ...y Diana, little though she concentered her attention on any figures of the groups. She had the woman’s 120 Diana of the Crossways faculty (transientl... ... have opened her heart for inspection. Rejoicing in her independence of an emo- tional sex, the impulsive woman burned with a regret that at their par... ... towns, the people-priests, dames, cavaliers, ur- chins, infants, shifting groups of supple southerners-flashed across the page like a web of silk, an... ... a breath of it in the atmosphere of Dacier, none in Diana’s. It rose from groups not so rapidly and largely mixing, and less quick to kindle; whose c... ...epigrams, drolleries, do not bubble to the lips of a woman who is under an emo- tional spell: rather they prove that she has the spell for cast- ing. ...

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...g, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which 42 Around the World in 80 Days... ...s of the glade, which was lit up by the torches. The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battl... ...hem to the rear of the glade, where they were able to observe the sleeping groups. Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branch... ...t, with coldness, neither his voice nor his manner betraying the slightest emo- tion; but he seemed to be always on the watch that nothing should be w... ...ossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects by the combination of their various pitches of tone. The ju...

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...f new fortunes. Glamorganshire was at least a better climate than Bute; no groups of idle or of busy reapers could here stand waiting on the guidance ... ...ves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as a musical hum: and behind all swam, under olive-tinted haze, the illimitable ... ...ught, and drown the world and you!—I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager musical en- ergy, two stricken hours, his face radiant and moist, and commu... ...e given up, and formed (if the room were large enough) secondary hum- ming groups of their own. He began anywhere: you put some question to him, made ... ...the blest and the intelligible:—on which occasions those secondary humming groups would all cease humming, and hang breathless upon the eloquent words... ...all her gayety gone, the dimpling softness be- come liquid sorrow, and the musical ringing voice one wail of woe, “burst into tears,”—so I have it on ... ...nt, he took leave even of his Father, to avoid excitements and intolerable emo- tions; and except his Brother and the Maurices, who were generally abo...

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...s chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening ... ...le inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burde... ...escended, the houses and buildings rose up, the presence of those watching groups of people, the tension of the situation; and one forgot the sky. Pre... ... I stooped down and replaced it. I was trembling—trembling with a nameless emo- tion. I looked with quickened eyes closely among the barley stems, and... ...eepest, widest, and most enduring of all the vast inundations of religious emo- tion that go by that name. But indeed it differed essentially from its... ... decorative crock- ery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate. And books, countless books, too, and ... ...or so. I could say nothing to her at all, but I could feel the wave of her emo- tion. I halted, answered the earnest pressure of her hand, relinquishe...

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...e often been curious.” “He was a man of considerable gifts, but spasmodic, emo- tional. He had grave domestic troubles, divorced his wife, in fact, an... ...fter two hundred years. The haphazard cylinders he substituted displayed a musical fan- tasia. At first it was beautiful, and then it was sensuous. He... ...a crowd. He stopped near the highest step. Before him, on that level, were groups of seats and a little kiosk. He went up to this and, stopping in the... ...ble gold. They clambered up the tottering walls, they clung in wreaths and groups about the high-standing pillars. They swarmed along the edges of the... ...party councils, ruling by newspapers and electoral organisations—two small groups of rich and able men, work- ing at first in opposition, then present... ...at responsibility.” Graham looked at her in surprise, at her face lit with emo- tion. She seemed at first to have spoken with an effort, and to have f... ...Graham. Ostrog stared. “Must the world go this way?” said Graham, with his emo- tions at the speaking point. “Must it indeed go in this way? Have all ...

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...as the man. Swift and trim she flitted amongst the islands of little known groups. She could be descried afar from lonely headlands, a white speck tra... ...thrown in for each speci- men—marked to suit your re-quirements. Sup- pose—musical instruments, this side up with care— how’s that for your taste? No,... ...western shore of the oval lagoon; and in the pure freshness of the air the groups of brown houses reflected in the water or seen above the wav- ing gr... ... men of two races. Lingard and Mrs. Travers crossed it rapidly between the groups that moved out of the way on their passage. Lingard threw open the c... ...e steadiness of the heavy glass. She was as firm as a rock after all those emo- tions and all that fatigue. Mrs. Travers directed the glass instinctiv... ...rs. Travers lowered the glass. All at once behind her back she heard a low musical voice beginning to pour out incomprehen- sible words in a tone of p... ... reasons simple or perverse. Opera! Dresses! Yes—about Shakespeare and the musical glasses! For a mere whim or for the deepest purpose. Women worthy o... ...couldn’t suppose for a mo- ment, that, like herself, he was emptied of all emo- tion. She never before was so aware of him as a dan- gerous force. “He... ...ion to all the forms and matters of the earth; and in the extremity of his emo- tion ceases even to look upon himself but as the sub- ject of a sublim...

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...et mansion stood looking over a wide green lawn, over banks of flowers and groups of trees. It had a striking character of elegance, produced partly b... ...s warm and still; the air was admirably soft. The good Manceaux, in little groups and pairs, were seated near me; my ear was soothed by the fine shade... ...n tumbrels that jolt slowly to the scaffold, of heads carried on pikes, of groups of heated citoyennes shaking their fists at closed coach-windows, I ... ...d with a grateful sense of cockney-ism. It was under the influence of this emo- tion that I alighted at Orange, to visit a collection of eminently civ... ...ectory) dur- ing which the treasure could not be shown. The purpose of the musical chimes to which I had so artlessly listened was to usher in this fr...

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...furrowed her pale face. “Mme la Duchesse,” he began, his voice shaken with emo- tion, “does your companion understand French?” The veiled figure bowed... ...ould not refuse to accept it. When he 47 Balzac fell back again among the groups of men gathered at a dis- tance from the women, his friends congratu... ...ain, some man whose soul vibrates with the throb of passion, may take up a musical theme, and lo! heaven is opened for them, or they find a language f... ... The poignant irony of her answer had changed before the end into the most musical accents in which a woman could find utterance for ingenuous love. T...

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... the German, French, Spanish, and English languages. Also, we were marvelous musical prodigies—if you will allow me to say it, it being only the truth... ... and at last she was told that T om had come home. She began to tremble with emo tion, and straightway sent to beg him to let his “po’ ole nigger Mam... ...and solidifying their popularity, and charming and surprising all with their musical prodi gies, and now and then heightening the effects with sample... ...morning. The crowd poured out of the place and went flocking away in excited groups and couples, taking the events of the ses sion over with vivacity...

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...d noblemen known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his Frenc... ...mpatient as to arrest their opening notes, and even to interrupt their un- musical consultations, with “No: it is no use; it is no use: no, no, I say!... ...to attend: “though,” as she said to Arabella, “you must know I abomi- nate musical parties, and think them the most absurd of en- tertainments possibl... ...n here. Indeed, I dare do no more than hint at these mysteries of feminine emo- tion. I beg you to believe that when we are dealing with that wonder, ... ...ion of love. She ad- dressed Emilia vaguely, bidding her keep guard on her emo- tions, and telling her there was one test of the truth of mas- culine ... ... answer, “With papa,” and then stopped as he was walking off to one of the groups. “After all, it won’t do for us to listen to the whims of an invalid... ...nd it breaks my heart to see her. It is too cruel. She does not betray any emo- tion, but I can see that every principle she had gained is gone, and t...

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...ith his eyes one of the figures, which was repeated many times over in the groups upon the walls and ceiling. It formed the principal link of an alleg... ...’s eyes. They welled up slowly from his heart, which was thrilling with an emo- tion more delightful than he had often felt before, but which he forbo... ... those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in attitudes of li... ...treet below. In the balconies that projected along the palace fronts stood groups of ladies, some beautiful, all richly dressed, scattering forth thei... ...ichly dressed, scattering forth their laughter, shrill, yet sweet, and the musical babble of their voices, to thicken into an airy tumult over the hea...