...The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Arsène Lupin, gentleman-thief, as main character. The eight stories, even though independent, have a leading thread: ...

..." I fear ." said Wabbit, pouring the contents of the clock onto his plate. " That all is not well." Pack took a slice of toast and began to butter it. " Was that the clock with the mouse in it." Pack looked at the contents of the clock scattered on the table. " Repaired i...

...was in the act of doing one cold day, when the last drowsy sound of Twelve o’clock, just struck, was humming like a melodious monster of a Bee, and no... ..., bring up your family on next to nothing, pay your rent as regularly as the clock strikes, be punctual in your dealings (I set you a good example; yo... ...lf with chains and weights, to retard his. He saw some putting the hands of clocks for ward, some putting the hands of clocks backward, some en dea... ..., some putting the hands of clocks backward, some en deavouring to stop the clock entirely. He saw them repre senting, here a marriage ceremony, the...

...nge, and when we got there, walked up and down at the back of it where the Clock T ower is. We walked an hour and more, for he had much to say to me. ... ...l found in all respects, we parted with our pilot at a quarter past four o’clock in the afternoon of the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred ... ...d to John in answer, “Well, well, John! Let us wait till the turn of one o’clock, before we talk about that.” I had just had one of the ship’ s lanter... ...ours after dinner (I always issued the allowance I have mentioned at one o’clock, and called it by that name), as well as our song at sunset. The prop...

...ame absence, he writes to his wife on a Sun- day: ‘It is now about eight o’clock with me, and I imagine you to be busy with the young folks, hearing t... ...ave breakfasted late, I shall afterwards take a walk, and dine about six o’clock. I do not know who is the clergy- man here, but I shall think of you ... ...st; and that she would even turn a half-penny if laid upon deck.’ By two o’clock on the morning of the 15th July this purgatorial vessel was moored by... ...ting twenty-four in number, em- barked on board of the Smeaton about ten o’clock p.m., and sailed from Arbroath with a gentle breeze at west. Our ship... ...reeably to an arranged plan of operations, all hands were called at five o’clock a.m., just as the highest part of the Bell Rock began to show its sab... ...curately of the state of the weather for the follow- ing day. About five o’clock, on coming upon deck, the sun’s upper limb or disc had just begun to ... ...rock barely made its appearance at this pe- riod of the tides till eight o’clock, yet, having now a full mile to row from the floating light to the ro... ...m different arrange- ments; breakfast was accordingly served up at seven o’clock this morning. From the excessive motion of the floating light, the wr... ... it became necessary to take this meal before leaving the ship. At eight o’clock all hands were assembled on the quarter-deck for prayers, a solemnity...

...rs she was bring- ing home from Canada. The accident happened about five o’clock in the morn- ing, as the day was breaking. The officers of the quarte... ...pass there, “that he was too big for that!” The 6th of July, about three o’clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south,... ...ould only fear, not hope it. But at seven minutes to 27 Jules Verne one o’clock in the morning a deafening whistling was heard, like that produced by... ...lives of my men.” “And mine too,” simply said the harpooner. Towards two o’clock in the morning, the burning light reappeared, not less intense, about... ...mself with sharpening his harpoon—a terrible weapon in his hands. At six o’clock day began to break; and, with the first glimmer of light, the electri... ...mmer of light, the electric light of the narwhal disap- peared. At seven o’clock the day was sufficiently advanced, but a very thick sea fog obscured ... ...ady 28 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea perched on the mast-heads. At eight o’clock the fog lay heavily on the waves, and its thick scrolls rose little b... ...y broke from everyone! At noon we were no further advanced than at eight o’clock in the morning. The captain then decided to take more direct means. “... ...e collision of the frigate with the cetacean had oc- curred about eleven o’clock in the evening before. I reck- 34 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea oned ...

...ieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain ... ...nding sweep with his gigantic scythe in flying over the city. What is this clock lower than most of the rest, and nearer to the ear, that lags so far ... ... so far behind to-night as to strike into the vibration alone? This is the clock of the Hospital for Foundling Children. Time was, when the Foundlings... ...ober, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, half-past one in the afternoon. The clock of the Hos... ...tion was beginning to wander at the very outset of the interview. “Eight o’clock is my breakfast-hour,” he resumed. “It is one of my virtues to be nev... ...f a substantial house, whose ground story was devoted to the sale of Swiss clocks—he passed at once into domestic Switzerland. A white-tiled stove for... ...lowery carpet by the sofa, and the velvet chimney-board with its capacious clock and vases of artificial flowers, contended with that tone, as if, in ... ... to domestic purposes. Mimic water was dropping off a mill-wheel under the clock. The visitor had not stood before it, following it with his eyes, a m... ...ish, peeped out of the fanciful bodice she wore, and lurked in the curious clocked red stocking, and in its little silver-buckled shoe. As to the elde...

... up the woollen muffler round his throat with both hands. “At past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning! So!” He spoke to himself. There was no one ... ... to what quarter I turn my face.” Thus, at Mugby Junction, at past three o’clock of a tempestuous morning, the traveller went where the weather drove ... ...ot drink which he had stood upon the chimney-piece, when he heard the town clocks striking, and, referring to his watch, found the evening to have so ...

...ated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Martinez de la Rosa. THE CLOCK of the little town of Menda had just struck mid- night. At that momen...

... all went to church, and then sat round the fire chatting until the four o’clock dinner was ready. The Coverdale girls thought it was rather more dull...

...of smoking (in which act he was discovered by his fainting aunt at three o’clock one morning)—in one word, when John Perkins arrived at manhood, he di... ...stival. He would have stayed away if he could, but he dared not. At nine o’clock, he in general’s uniform; his wife in blue satin and diamonds; his da...

...iately, and only waited for courage to say so, when the sound of the great clock at Mansfield Park, striking three, made her feel that she had really ... ...Sir Thomas, producing his watch with all necessary caution; “it is three o’clock, and your sister is not used to these sort of hours.” “Well, then, Fa... ... will have her orders in a day or two. And Mr. Campbell was here at four o’clock to ask for you: he has got one of the Thrush’s boats, and is going of... ...f he was not with them, spent the long, long evening there; and from six o’clock till half-past nine, there was little intermission of noise or grog. ...

...fficient, and with it a master’s house with a tower to con- tain a village clock, which was given out of the savings of Mrs. Smith and her sister and ... ...rious brilliant flowers and stems fit for chains be passed by, or for the “clocks” that furnish auguries! (L. autumnalis).—Is this a separate species,...

...ght,’ said Caroline. Mr. Adister consulted his watch and the man- telpiece clock for a minute of difference between them, re- marking that he was a pr... .... Mistress Adister O’Donnell’s head rounded as by slow at- traction to the clock. Her disciplined husband signified an equal mixture of contrition and... ...dith me that you may count on him for what the great Napoleon called two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage; not too common even in his immortal army:—whe... ... her husband’s proffered arm unhesitatingly at the appointed stroke of the clock. She said: ‘Yes,’ in agreement with him, as if she had never heard hi... ...s genial, if you remember the whisky and the fumes of our tobacco at one o’clock!’ ‘I shall recollect the evening with the utmost pleasure. You were k... ...But you are in the air! exposed! My head makes me stupid. It is now five o’clock. The air begins to chill. Con will never forgive me if you catch a co...

... anon; Then wilt thou tumble in confusion. [Exit. Hell disappears.—The clock strikes eleven .] FAUSTUS. O Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare ho... ...l! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn’d. O, I’... ...ustus – Marlowe 73 But let my soul mount and ascend to heaven! [ The clock strikes the half hour. ] O, half the hour is past! ‘twill all be pa... ...elf, curse Lucifer That hath depriv’d thee of the joys of heaven. [The clock strikes twelve .] It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, O...

...all Caroline, and to go to bed herself, for it was a good deal past nine o’clock. She had been aware, she could hardly tell how, that her father had b... ...eard of the result of it was ‘So,’ and then lessons went on until twelve o’clock, when it was the custom that the girl should have an hour’s recre- at... ... uncle and the young man got in after her, saying something about eleven o’clock. She was more awake now, and knew that they were driving through ligh... ... like scream- ing, only then she might have been heard; and a great horrid clock went on making a noise like a church bell, and striking so many odd q... ...ss, and a mother! It was all for the sake of depreciating her. At twelve o’clock, to her further indignation, she found there was to be an hour of rea... ...hold drudges, so that her reading did not become more intelligible. As the clock struck one, a warning gong was heard; everybody jumped up, the work w... ... dinner? Or there is the amusing shelf. Books may be taken out after one o’clock, and they must be put back at eight, or they are confiscated for the ... ... the next day, and then would follow amusements, evening toilette, seven o’clock tea, 39 Yo n g e and either games or reading aloud till bedtime. As ... ...sister, who tore herself away from the arrangements, being bound to five-o’clock tea elsewhere, Mysie was discovered with a face still rather woe-bego...

... things, an’ de heavy freight movin’ down fer de Boston boat ‘bout t’ree o’clock of an August afternoon, in de middle of a hot wave when de fat Kanuck... ...ll cabin and pantry lamps; galley-fittings en bloc; flags and flag-locker; clocks, chronom- eters; the forward compass and the ship’s bell and belfry,... ...e Scott his orders for the coming campaign. It was very late—nearly nine o’clock. “Jim, you’re a brute,” said his wife, that night; and the Head of th... ... down every few minutes, and I couldn’t get ‘em over the ground till ten o’clock that night. I wanted to come awfully. Y ou knew I did, didn’t you?” “... ...just about as mad as they make ‘em on account o’ being called out at ten o’clock at night) took hold and snapped her into Boston in seventeen min- ute... ...o amend the Constitution. The first stroke of twelve is—” “Boom!” went the clock in the big yard-tower, and far away 007 heard a full, vibrating “ Ya... ...uth with her seven vestibuled cream-white cars, you will hear, as the yard-clock makes the half-hour, a far-away sound like the bass of a violoncello,... ...just come back to England when Mrs. McPhee invited me to dinner at three o’clock in the afternoon, and the notepaper was almost bridal in its scented ... ...w thing after another -the new vine-pattern carpet, the new chiming rustic clock between the models of the Colombo outrigger- boats, the new inlaid si...

...at arches, colourless, indifferent, shoulder- ing between them an unlovely clock, were fit por- tals for some eternal adventure, whose issue might be ... ..., but aren’t particularly rich. The town isn’t interest- ing, except for a clock that rolls its eyes, and the view of the Oder, which truly is somethi... ...in bed, and must make up for lost time. Margaret accepted, and at eleven o’clock one cheerless morning they started out in a brougham. “First of all,”... ...time of the train, she 84 Howards End strained her eyes for St. Pancras’s clock. Then the clock of King’s Cross swung into sight, a second moon in th... ... the emo- tional content was minimised, and all went forward smoothly. The clock ticked, the coals blazed higher, and contended with the white radianc... ..., for all the conventional colouring of life had been altered. Inside, the clock struck ten with a rich and confident note. Other clocks confirmed it,... ...ed to London with a more peaceful mind. The following morning, at eleven o’clock, she pre- sented herself at the offices of the Imperial and West Afri... ...air when compared with the preparations for it. Everything went like one o’clock. Mr. Cahill materialised out of space, and was waiting for his bride ... ...down on their hunting expedition to Howards End. He called at about four o’clock. The weather had changed, and the sun shone gaily on the ornamental s...

... and telling a story he has heard some years earlier from a friend, George, about the Death-Cart, and how a person who dies on New-Years eve when the clock strikes Midnight will have to take over the Death-Cart as driver. The Death-Cart is a beaten-down horse-drawn carriage, drawn by a very old, one eyed horse, which travels the earth to pick up the souls of the dead and t...