But when the echoes echo had fully ceased cease , a light laughter laughter at once pervaded the assembly ; the musicians looked look at each other and smiled smile as if at their own nervousness and folly , and made whispering vows vow , each to the other , that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion ; and then , after the lapse of sixty minutes , ( which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies , ) there came yet another chiming chime of the clock , and then were the same disconcert disconcert and tremulousness tremulousness and meditation meditation as before .

But the echoes echo of the chime chime die die away -- they have endured endure but an instant -- and a light , half-subdued laughter laughter floats float after them as they depart depart .

Hoarse staccato cries cry and peals of laughter laughter shook shake the old hut , and as the boy stood there peering peer through the black trees , abruptly the door flew fly open and a flood of light illumined illumine the wood .

The sally sally was saluted by a roar of laughter laughter , and there , as we all thought that night , the thing ended .