A harsher , shriller note note struck in as of many and ruder voices ; but above it flew the first sweet music music , birdlike , abandoned , and the boy crept creep closer .

The principle I have just mentioned as operating had been , with the most newly disembarked disembark of the two men , wholly instinctive -- the fruit of a sharp sense sense that , delightful as it would be to find himself looking , after so much separation , into his comrade 's face , his business would be a trifle bungled should he simply arrange for this countenance to present itself to the nearing near steamer as the first " note note , " of Europe .

Mixed with everything was the apprehension , already , on Strether 's part , that it would , at best , throughout , prove the note note of Europe in quite a sufficient degree .

That note note had been meanwhile -- since the previous afternoon , thanks to this happier device -- such a consciousness of personal freedom as he had n't known for years ; such a deep taste taste of change and of having above all for the moment nobody and nothing to consider , as promised already , if headlong hope were not too foolish , to colour his adventure adventure with cool success .

Mrs. Rachel , before she had fairly closed the door , had taken a mental note note of everything that was on that table .

And so , as Cameron began to respond respond to the influence of a desert less lonely than habitual , he began to take keener note note of his comrade , and found find him different from any other he had ever encountered in the wilderness .

A snap snap of the gate between the bamboos added a metallic note note to the tree 's reedy whimperings whimpering , and the postman tramped tramp along the short garden path and up the veranda steps .

Some half hour later I happened to glance glance casually across the valley and was much surprised surprise to note note three little dots in about the same place I had last seen see my friend and his two pack animals .

I was interested to note note that the tracks of the pursuing pursue horsemen , for such I was now convinced they must be , continued continue after Powell with only a brief stop stop at the hole for water ; and always at the same rate of speed as his .