That was truly great." "Great indeed;" said Harry, with enthusiasm.

"I never heard you sing like that before, Kate." But Ranald sat silent, finding no words in which to express the thoughts and feelings her singing had aroused in him.
There is that in noble music which forbids unreality, rebukes frivolity into silence, subdues ignoble passions, soothes the heart's sorrow, and summons to the soul high and holy thoughts.

It was difficult to begin the conversation; the trivial themes of the earlier part of the evening seemed foreign to the mood that had fallen upon the company.

At length Mr.Sims ventured to remark, with a giggle: "It's awfully fine, don't you know, but a trifle funereal.

Makes one think of graves and that sort of thing.