3.  The wind and the rain are over’; calm is the noon of the day\:  the clouds are divided in heaven’; over the green hills flies the inconstant sun’; red through the stormy vale comes down the stream’.

4.  This proposition was, however, rejected,’ and not merely rejected, but rejected with insult’.

Exception.—­Emphasis sometimes reverses this rule, and requires the rising inflection, apparently for the purpose of calling attention to the idea of an unusual manner of expressing it.

EXAMPLES. (21)

1.  I should not like to ride in that car’. 2.  Look out!  A man was drowned there yesterday’. 3.  Presumptuous man! the gods’ take care of Cato’,

Rule ii.—­The language of emphasis generally requires the falling inflection.

EXAMPLES. (22)

1.  Charge’, Chester, charge’; on’, Stanley, on’.

2.  Were I an American, as I am an Englishman, while a single’ foreign troop’ remained’ in my country, I would never’ lay down my arms’—­never’, never’, never.’

3.  Does anyone suppose that the payment of twenty shillings, would have ruined Mr. Hampden’s fortune?  No’.  But the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle’ it was demanded, would have made him a slave’.

4.  I insist’ upon this point’:  I urge’ you to it; I press’ it, demand’ it.

5.  All that I have’, all that I am’, and all that I hope’ in this life, I am now ready’, here, to stake’ upon it.

Rule iii.—­Interrogative sentences and members of sentences, which can not be answered by yes or no, generally require the falling inflection.

EXAMPLE. (22)

1.  How many books did he purchase’?

2.  Why reason ye these things in your hearts’?

3.  What see’ you, that you frown so heavily to-day’?

4.  Ah! what is that flame which now bursts on his eye’?

5.  Whence this pleasing hope’, this fond desire’,
   This longing after immortality’?

Exception.—­When questions usually requiring the falling inflection are emphatic or repeated, they take the rising inflection.

EXAMPLES. (22)

1.  Where did you say he had gone’?

2.  To whom did you say the blame was to be imputed’?

3.  What is’ he?  A knave.  What’ is he?  A knave, I say.

RISING INFLECTION. (23)

Rule iv.—­The rising inflection is generally used where the sense is dependent or incomplete.

Remark.—­This inflection is generally very slight, requiring an acute and educated ear to discern it, and it is difficult to teach pupils to distinguish it, though they constantly use it.  Care should be taken not to exaggerate it.