Then away out in the woods I heardhearthat kind of a soundsoundthat a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that 's on its mind and ca n't make itself understood , and so ca n't rest easy in its grave , and has to go about that way every night grieving .
From behind this door , as from behind those below , soundssoundproceeded , but this time they did not seem to discourage Mr. Pett .
To Dale 's keen ear these soundssoundwere all they should have been , betokening an unchanged serenity of forestland .
Chirk , chirk , chirk , it went , the soundsoundof a spoon being rapidly whiskedwhiskround a basin .
The handsome girl waitedwaitfor some time idly in her place , and the only soundsoundheardhearin the stillness was the hoppinghopof the canary up-and down the perches of its prison .
She only knew that people were ill and that she heardhearmysterious and frightening soundssound.
Many things happened during the hours in which she sleptsleepso heavily , but she was not disturbed by the wailswailand the soundsoundof things being carriedcarryin and out of the bungalow .
Considering that the little party had been seated round the tea-table for less than twenty minutes , the animation observable on their faces , and the amount of soundsoundthey were producing collectively , were very creditable to the hostess .
Its pendulum swungswingto and fro with a dull , heavy , monotonous clangclang; and when the minute-hand mademakethe circuit of the face , and the hour was to be stricken , there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a soundsoundwhich was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical , but of so peculiar a note and emphasis that , at each lapse of an hour , the musicians of the orchestra were constrainedconstrainto pausepause, momentarily , in their performanceperformance, to harkenharkento the soundsound; and thus the waltzers perforce ceasedceasetheir evolutionsevolution; and there was a brief disconcertdisconcertof the whole gay company ; and , while the chimes of the clock yet rangrang, it was observedobservethat the giddiest grew palepale, and the more aged and sedate passedpasstheir hands over their brows as if in confused revery or meditation .
But now it soundedsoundto me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being .