She had a feeling in her heart, as though some religious chord had been newly touched.

It may, of course, have been that with the renewal of the bird voices a fresh courage, a fresh belief in the good issue of the struggle came too.

In the misery of silence, from which they had all suffered for so long, any new train of thought was almost bound to be a boon.

As the inrush of birds continued, their wings beating against the crackling rushes, Lady Arabella grew pale, and almost fainted.
"What is that ?" she asked suddenly.
To Mimi, born and bred in Siam, the sound was strangely like an exaggeration of the sound produced by a snake-charmer.
Edgar Caswall was the first to recover from the interruption of the falling kite.

After a few minutes he seemed to have quite recovered his _sang froid_, and was able to use his brains to the end which he had in view.