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...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Master Humphrey’s Clock by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity University. Master Humphrey’s Clock By Charles Dickens CHAPTER I—MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK SIDE I... ...n them the rustling of silk brocade, and the light step of Master Humphrey’s Clock — Dickens 3 some lovely girl, than to recognise in their altered ... ...nd so pass on. In a little time, those whom I had thus ac Master Humphrey’s Clock — Dickens 4 costed would make a point of coming to their doors an... ... by any jest upon my crooked figure. As a child I was mel Master Humphrey’s Clock — Dickens 5 ancholy and timid, but that was because the gentle co... ...oke upon me for the first time, and I knew, while watching Master Humphrey’s Clock — Dickens 6 my awkward and ungainly sports, how keenly she had fe... ... a little money could replace at will. Chief and first among all these is my Clock,—my old, cheerful, companionable Clock. How can I ever convey to ot... ...I ever convey to others an idea of the comfort and consolation that this old Clock has been for years to me! It is associated with my earliest recolle... ... broken the oppressive silence, and seemed to give me assurance that the old clock was still a faithful watcher at my chamber door! My easy chair, my ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sund...

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...lix by Frank Norris 1899 Chapter I IT HAD JUST STRUCK NINE from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine bro... ...elf-centred old man, with but two hobbies—homoeopathy and the mechanism of clocks. But he had a strange way of talking to himself in a low voice, keep... ...is own doings and actions; as, for in- stance, upon this occasion: “Nine o’clock—the clock’s a little fast. I think I’ll wind my watch. No, I’ve forgo... ...inally broke the crystal of his watch as he was resetting it by the cuckoo clock. “Hello!” he exclaimed suddenly, “where did you get that clock? Where... ... exclaimed suddenly, “where did you get that clock? Where did you get that clock? That’s new to me. Where did that come from?” “That cuckoo clock?” in... ... in this room at least twice a week for the last year and a half, and that clock, and no other, has always hung there.” But already Condy had forgotte... ...lways hung there.” But already Condy had forgotten or lost interest in the clock. “Is that so? is that so?” he murmured absent- mindedly, seating hims... ... mindedly, seating himself at the table. Mr. Bessemer was murmuring: “That clock’s a little fast. I can not make that clock keep time. Victorine has l... ...o bisque figures of an Italian fisher boy and girl kept com- pany with the clock, a huge timepiece, set in a red plush palette, that never was known t...

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...say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp....

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...hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. As if the clock ... ...d fell, flashing and gleaming on the little Haymaker at the top of the Dutch clock, until one might have thought he stood stock still before the Moor... ...asms, two to the second, all right and regular. But, his sufferings when the clock was going to strike, were frightful to behold; and, when a Cuckoo ... ...n. Nor was he startled without reason; for these rattling, bony skeletons of clocks are very disconcerting in their opera tion, and I wonder very muc... ...g for their own lower selves; and they might know better than to leave their clocks so very lank The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens 4 and u... ...bject to that — lighted a candle, glanced at the Haymaker on the top of the clock, who was getting in a pretty average crop of minutes; and looked o... ... The bright fire, blazing up again, acknowledged it! The little Mower on the clock, in his unheeded work, ac knowledged it! The Carrier, in his smoot... ... And as he soberly and thoughtfully puffed at his old pipe, and as the Dutch clock ticked, and as the red fire gleamed, and as the Cricket chirped; th... ... any combination of cir cumstances. CHAPTER III Chirp the Third The Dutch clock in the corner struck Ten, when the Car rier sat down by his firesi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?THERE, I?ve done every bit I can do! I?m going to see what o?clock it is.? ?I heard it strike eleven just now.? ?Sylvia, you?ll tip up! What a tremendous stretch!? ?Wha-ooh! Oh dear! We sha?n?t get one moment before dinner! Oh, horrible! oh, horrible! most horrible!? ?Sylvia, you know ...

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... I CHAPTER I “THERE, I’ve done every bit I can do! I’m going to see what o’clock it is.” “I heard it strike eleven just now.” “Sylvia, you’ll tip up! ... ...ier, and she moved as though wearied out for the whole day by the time the clock struck nine, and released them; whilst her pupil, who never was cross... ...luncheon was a great infliction, because all the time from that to three o’clock was her own. It was a poor remnant of the entire afternoons which she... ...or those of colonists cutting down trees and making the butter. At three o’clock the carriage came to the door; and on Mon- days and Thursdays took La... ...e light nights of summer always dimin- ished her alarms; and she heard the clocks strike, and the bell ring for prayers, the doors open and shut, all ... ...had come round with Adelaide to carry off Kate, and meet the rest at ten o’clock. Lady de la Poer would have written, but it had only boon settled tha... ...r infect Adelaide. They intended to have gone into the gardens till four o’clock, when the fountains were to play; but as they moved towards the great... ...ust as a knock came to the door, and the maid announced that it was five o’clock, and Miss’s things were quite ready; and in return she was thanked, a... ...in, she was still two miles from St. James’s; and it was half-past three o’clock, so that she began to feel that she had run away without her dinner, ...

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...Excerpt: It was nine o?clock. The little town of Vauchamp, dark and silent, had just retired to bed amid a chilly No vember rain. In the Rue des Recollets, one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the district of Saint- Jean, a single wind...

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... Zola CAPTAIN BURLE by Emile Zola CHAPTER I THE SWINDLE I T WA S NINE O’CLOCK. The little town of V auchamp, dark and silent, had just retired to b... ...nce: “Petticoat Burle is done for; he’s a buried man!” It was nearly ten o’clock when Major Laguitte furiously flung the door of the cafe open. For a ... ...iddle class household gathered in concord around their fireside. At nine o’clock Burle woke up, yawned and announced that he was going off to bed; he ... ...up to her room; she was, indeed, a regular hen, snor ing the round of the clock without waking. “No need to disturb anybody,” said Laguitte on the la... ...rough the darkness to the Rue des Recollets, which he reached about nine o’clock. The street door was still unlocked, and on going up he stood panting... ...ned her. “Where is Burle?” he asked. “Oh, he has been snoring since nine o’clock. Would you like to knock at his door?” “No, no, I only wanted to have...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, ...

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...ual opportunity university. 3 Dumas Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE... ...tments, where his valet changed his dress, and as Madame had not yet sent orders respecting breakfast, Monsieur stretched himself upon a chaise longue... ...nd conduct her from the salon to the refectory. This formality being accomplished with great ceremony, the husband and wife breakfasted, and then sepa... ...or a lover. That is the cause of this embarrassment; that is the cause of this hesitation; that is the cause of this order — ‘Mon- sieur the lieutenan... ...an two hours, possessed by the sleeplessness of love, opened his shutters himself, and cast an inquiring look into the courts of the sleeping palace. ... ... on the other side of the carriage, saw and heard all without being observed. The king offered his arm to Mademoiselle de Mancini, and made a sign to ... ... man unloosed from the tightest bounds, and said in a low voice: “Now, then, my officer, I hope that it is over.” The king summoned his gentleman. “Pl... ...“Ah, but we have monsieur le surintendant,” said he. “And you laugh at the king, then?” Bazin made no reply; his smile was sufficiently eloquent. “My ... ...usand livres down, and deposited the three thousand with a Bur- gomaster, after which he brought on board without their being seen, the ten men who fo...

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...sle of Bourbon, by the grateful writer. De Balzac. IN 1828, at about one o’clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faub... ...rument which applies the Code to individual cases with the indifference of clockwork. Hence, nature, having bestowed on M. Popinot a not too pleasing ... ...unhappy wretches swarmed in the early morning, would be deserted by nine o’clock, and as gloomy and squalid as ever. Bianchon put his horse to a trot ... ...f the fire, his hat between his knees, stared at the gilt chandeliers, the clock, and the curiosities with which the chimney-shelf was covered, the ve... ...ounted for: he had started from the gilt elephant sup- porting the chimney-clock, examining all this luxury, and had ended by reading this woman’s sou... ...l send to Ma- dame Jeanrenaud to call on me in my private office at four o’clock, to make her explain the facts which concern her, for she is compromi... ...he Mar- quis’ new form of insanity. When Popinot arrived at about twelve o’clock, accompanied by his clerk, the portress, when asked for M. d’Espard, ... ...olving front, an ordinary office table, and on the chimney- shelf, a dingy clock and two old candlesticks. The old man led the way for Popinot and his...

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...sin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty ... ... the Paris cab- horse; rising every morning, summer and winter, at seven o’clock, and setting out after breakfast to give music lessons in the boardin... ...mbitious effort. Pons, as a rule, only went to his theatre towards eight o’clock, when the piece in favor came on, and overtures and accompaniments ne... ...levard du Temple; how he had come thither he could not tell. It was five o’clock, and, strange to say, he had com- pletely lost his appetite. 40 Cous... ...ry, was amazed beyond ex- pression to see Pons, good man, return at five o’clock in the evening. Such a thing had never happened before; and not only ... ...hat Schmucke had always thought fit to call on these great ladies at ten o’clock in the morning!)—still, his pension was paid quarterly through the me... ...even times since the friends had lived together, Pons had exchanged a good clock for a better one, till at last he possessed a time- piece in Boule’s ... ... Schmucke never could see the slightest difference between the magnificent clock in Boule’s first manner and its six predecessors; but, for Pons’ sake... ...hed the London doctor who is said to have invented it. It was nearly ten o’clock before they rose from table. The amount of wine, German and French, c...

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... own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o?clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up....

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...e and delighted to be found there any after- noon in the year, from five o’clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Brooksmith was... ... and impayable, as improbable, as impossible, as delightful at the eight o’clock dinner—she appeared to keep these immense hours—as she had overwhelmi... ...d to keep these immense hours—as she had overwhelmingly been at the five o’clock tea. She was in the most natural way in the world one of the oddest a... ...eathing and visibly flushing, marking strange hours in the tall ma- hogany clocks that were never wound up and that yet audibly ticked on. All the ele... ... my asking you if you’ll kindly go now?” she went on after a glance at the clock. “I’m expecting a friend, whom I must see alone, on a matter of great... ... Work me in.” On her sharply presenting her back he stared a little at the clock. “If I come at seven may I stay to dinner?” It brought her round agai...

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...nitch On the 12th of August, 18-- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o?clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, ...

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... when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o’clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head wi... ...ed himself for an injury dealt him. By this time it was a quarter to one o’clock, but Karl Ivanitch never thought of releasing us, He merely set us a ... ...ollowing letter: “Petrovskoe, 12th April. “Only this moment (i.e. at ten o’clock in the evening) have I received your dear letter of the 3rd of April,... ...m-chair, and let my knitting slip from my hands. Sud- denly, towards one o’clock in the morning, I heard her say- ing something; whereupon I opened my... ...d awoke with my tears dried and my 90 Childhood nerves restored. At ten o’clock we were summoned to at- tend the pre-funeral requiem. The room was fu...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was a little before eight o?clock in the morning when Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin, a titular councillor, woke up from a long sleep. He yawned, stretched, and at last opened his eyes completely. For two minutes, however, he lay in his bed without moving, ...

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...anslated by Constance Garnett CHAPTER I IT WAS A LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT O’CLOCK in the morning when Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin, a titular councillo... ...meet Andrey Filippovitch, or even Krestyan Ivanovitch. At last, the town clock struck three. When Mr. Golyadkin finally took his seat in the carri... ...e! Off!” “Their dinner will not begin till after four, or perhaps five o’clock,” thought Mr. Golyadkin; “isn’t it early now? How ever, I can go a... ...er chance might take him. CHAPTER V IT WAS STRIKING MIDNIGHT from all the clock towers in Pe tersburg when Mr. Golyadkin, beside himself, ran out ... ... in fact, what is called a double in every respect…. CHAPTER VI AT EIGHT O’CLOCK NEXT MORNING Mr. Golyadkin woke up in his bed. At once all the ex... ...ble person in every way. Meanwhile, tea was brought in; it was nearly nine o’clock. Mr. Golyadkin felt in a very good humour, grew lively and skittish... ...ing into his servant’s domain; “you go to bed now and wake me up and eight o’clock. Do you understand Petrushka?” The Double – Dostoevsky 64 Mr.... ...?” Mr. Golyadkin went on. “You go to bed now and wake me tomorrow at eight o’clock; do you understand?” “Why, I know that; what’s the use of telli... ...ive gathering. CHAPTER VIII MR. G OLYADKIN WOKE UP next morning at eight o’clock as usual; as soon as he was awake he recalled all the adventures of...

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...ing that will happen in my last moments. Just a month from this day, on September 20, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o?clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope. Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible contracti...

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......11 10 For shame! deny that thou bear?st love to any, ........12 11 As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest .....12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, .........13 13 O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are ..........13 14 Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; ...........14 15 When I consider every thing that grows ..................14 1...

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...ast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest .....12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, .........13 13 O, that you were yourself! but... ...ore, not let that copy die. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 12 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; W... ...or dare I chide the world without end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid...

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...lly now that the company had left it, looked vast, and it offered to the girl?s eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley?s fortune also large, to account for so many immensities? Of this Adela could know nothing, but it struck her, while she smiled sweetly back at their entertainer, that she ...

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...rl’s eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley’s fortune also large, ... ... right,” he said as if he wanted to get on with his work. He looked at the clock on the man- tel-shelf; he would have to put in another hour. “All rig... ... Her mother was dead but it killed her again. So one morn- ing at eleven o’clock, when she knew her father was writ- ing letters, she went out quietly... ...—an order for dinner and a vehicle; he and Godfrey were to arrive at six o’clock. Adela had plenty of occupa- tion for the interval, since she was pit...

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...had rapidly untied the string, and drawn from its wrappings a round nickel clock of the kind to be bought for a dollar-seventy-five. “Oh, Ann Eliza, h... ...ght for a dollar-seventy-five. “Oh, Ann Eliza, how could you?” She set the clock down, and the sisters exchanged agitated glances across the table. “W... ...t you, Evelina?” “Y es, but—” “There ain’t any buts. We’ve always wanted a clock and now we’ve got one: that’s all there is about it. Ain’t she a beau... ...r sister’s shoulder to pass an approving hand over the circular rim of the clock. “Hear how loud she ticks. I was afraid you’d hear her soon as you co... ... Ann Eliza; but I know you’ve given up something you needed to get me this clock.” “What do I need, I’d like to know? Ain’t I got a best black silk?” ... ...ate in silence for a few moments before Evelina began to speak again. “The clock is perfectly lovely and I don’t say it ain’t a comfort to have it; bu... ... which she put the last lump of sugar; and between them, on the table, the clock kept up its sociable tick. “Where’d you get it, Ann Eliza?” asked Eve... ... store. And he told me he used to work at Tiff’ny’s, oh, for years, in the clock-depart- ment, and three years ago he took sick with some kinder fe- v... ...le, had been roaming about the room in search of an abiding- place for the clock. A rosewood what-not with ornamental fret-work hung on the wall besid...

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...oyment, and gave them, more especially, excellent dinners. T oward seven o’clock on this memorable evening, her guests were all assembled in a wide ci... ...Brigitte, “he must be toil- ing along the roads on foot.” “There’s eight o’clock striking now,” cried the countess, in terror. She dared not stay away... ...I had questioned him and demanded to see his papers.” At that instant, the clocks of Carentan struck half-past nine; the lanterns were lighted in Mada... ... the Revo- lution, “but do not keep him under your roof later than seven o’clock in the morning. To-morrow, at eight, I shall be at your door with a d...

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...er-time was in full dreariness when I left my chambers for ever, at five o’clock in the morning. I had shaved by candle-light, of course, and was mise... ... snowing. All night long we went on in this manner. Thus we came round the clock, upon the Great North Road, to the performance of Auld Lang Syne by d... ... the snow lay thick- est. When we came within a town, and found the church clocks all stopped, the dial-faces choked with snow, and the inn-signs blot... ...t the track of stoats, hares, and foxes, and sometimes of birds. At nine o’clock at night, on a Yorkshire moor, a cheerful burst from our horn, and a ... ...d, the horse-bells jingling merrily up and down the street beyond, and the clocks of all descriptions in all the rooms, which are never right, unless ... ... clipping in the course of the day , and that to-morrow morning at eight o’clock the pheayton would be ready . Boots’s view of the whole case, looking... ... my Bill to be upon the table, and a chaise to be at the door, “at eight o’clock to-morrow evening.” It was eight o’clock to-morrow evening when I buc...

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... his body straight, his head erect; he was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the mo... ...ommunication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg’s bedchamber, both beating the same ... ...’ll do,” said Passepartout to himself. He suddenly observed, hung over the clock, a card which, upon inspection, proved to be a programme of the daily... ...had not gone so smoothly. The package of notes not being found when five o’clock sounded from the ponderous clock in the “drawing office,” the amount ... ...nditions so 16 Around the World in 80 Days difficult to their friend. The clock struck seven, and the party offered to suspend the game so that Mr. F... ... true that he was going away, this so domestic person hitherto! By eight o’clock Passepartout had packed the modest car- pet-bag, containing the wardr... ... any price. The commissioner of police was sitting in his office at nine o’clock one evening, when the following telegraphic dispatch was put into his... ...t hun- dred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez. The Mongolia plied re... ...s now half-past ten. “The steamer doesn’t come!” he exclaimed, as the port clock struck. “She can’t be far off now,” returned his companion. “How long...

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...e sounds, and the air had a late feel, and a late smell, too — about a two o’clock feel, as near as I could make out — T om said the professor was so ... ...Mark Twain 15 CHAPTER III. TOM EXPLAINS WE WENT TO SLEEP ABOUT FOUR O’CLOCK, and woke up about eight. The professor was setting back there at h... ...ument. He told us to shut up, and maybe we’d feel better. Then he see a town clock away off down yonder, and he took up the glass and looked at it, an... ...lass and looked at it, and then looked at his silver turnip, and then at the clock, and then at the turnip again, and says: “That’s funny! That clock’... ...ock’s near about an hour fast.” So he put up his turnip. Then he see another clock, and took a look, and it was an hour fast too. That puzzled him. “T... ...ays. “I don’t under stand it.” Then he took the glass and hunted up another clock, and sure enough it was an hour fast too. Then his eyes began to sp... ...degrees of longitude since we left St. Louis yesterday after noon, and them clocks are right. We’ve come close on to eight hundred miles.” I didn’t b... ...rking his mind and studying. Pretty soon he says: “Mars Tom, did you say dem clocks uz right?” Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 19 “Yes, they’re right.... ...ifteen of ‘em’s an hour, thirty of ‘em’s two hours, and so on. When it’s one clock Tuesday morning in England, it’s eight o’clock the night before in ...