The singer's triumph, however, was not without compensating disadvantages, his efforts being assisted by a distinctly audible chorus in undertone which would cling to him throughout the song in spite of his endeavours to throw off the encumbrance by means of abrupt changes of tempo, and variations in the air; and this professed appreciation of the performance evoked from the singer such gratitude as one would expect under the circumstances.
No! On the whole we did not "entertain" much in Remyo; we contented ourselves with quiet, domestic lives, enlivened but occasionally by such outbursts of wild revelry as I have described.
Chapter IX.—ADVENTURES.—
"Things are seldom what they seem"—"H.M.S. Pinafore."
"I haven't braved any dangers, but I feel as if I knew all about it"—(Rudyard Kipling.)
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