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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XV
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I never heard any except 'Largo.' I don't know anything about music.

I don't even know how to pretend I do.

If I knew enough to pretend, I would." "No," said Mary, looking at him and smiling faintly, "you wouldn't." She turned away as a great sound began to swim and tremble in the air; the huge empty space of the church filled with it, and the two people listening filled with it; the universe seemed to fill and thrill with it.

The two sat intensely still, the great sound all round about them, while the church grew dusky, and only the organist's lamp made a tiny star of light.

His white head moved from side to side beneath it rhythmically, or lunged and recovered with the fierceness of a duelist thrusting, but he was magnificently the master of his giant, and it sang to his magic as he bade it.
Bibbs was swept away upon that mighty singing.


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