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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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...ot easy to surprise! How orderly the kitchen ’d look by night, With just a clock,— But they could gag the tick, And mice won’t bark; And so the walls ... ...cumference between. 83 IV THE day came slow, till five o’clock, Then sprang before the hills Like hindered rubies, or the light A su... ...en the summer went Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home. ’T was sooner when the cricket went Than... ...t trees. It ’s like the morning,— Best when it’s done,— The everlasting clocks Chime noon. 137 XCIX A DEW sufficed itself And satisf... ...I were silenter. “T ell him night finished before we finished, And the old clock kept neighing ‘day!’ And you got sleepy and begged to be ended— What ... ... the bodice, danced T o the immortal tune,— Till those two troubled little clocks Ticked softly into one. XXX IN lands I never saw, they say... ...orhoods of pause; Here was no notice, no dissent, No universe, no laws. By clocks ’t was morning, and for night The bells at distance called; But epoc... ... that great water in the west T ermed immortality. CXXXV A CLOCK stopped—not the mantel’s; Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the pu... ...se. LXXV ’T WA S comfort in her dying room T o hear the living clock, A short relief to have the wind Walk boldly up and knock, Diversion ...

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...reeable to you, you will always find me at home in the evening until ten o’clock.” The invitation was given with such irresistible grace, that M. de M... ...and then at last he dressed, came to the Hotel de Langeais towards eight o’clock that evening, and was ad- mitted. He was to see the woman—ah! not the... ...ked. “I am go- ing to a ball, but I shall stay at home for you until ten o’clock.” Montriveau spent most of the next day in smoking an in- determinate... ...tal folly with hollow flatteries. “You will never forget to come at nine o’clock.” “No; but are you going to a ball every night?” “Do I know?” she ans... ...harming piece of coquetry? At any rate, she looked up mischievously as the clock struck twelve. “ Ah! you have made me too late for the ball!” she exc... ...at I am playing with him.” Armand de Montriveau stayed with her till two o’clock in the morning. From that moment this woman, whom he loved, was neith... ...ttered with papers, two big easy-chairs, a chest of drawers with an alarum clock by way of ornament, a very low bedstead with a coverlet flung over it... ...ay traverse from afar. In her tense self-concentration, the ticking of the clock grew hateful to her; she stopped its ill-omened garrulity . The twelv... ... at length with, “Mme la Duchesse does not know, perhaps, that it is two o’clock in the morning; I 101 Balzac thought that madame was not feeling wel...

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...trousers showed below her petticoats. After dinner till nine 6 Honorine o’clock, when a collation was served, though the conversa- tion had been gay ... ... event of God’s taking me to Himself. I shall have finished mass at nine o’clock; you have three-quarters of an hour before you. Be ready.’ “ ‘What, u... ...riars have been waiting in the drawing-room for two hours.’ “It was nine o’clock. “ ‘Well, gentlemen, you find yourselves compelled to dine with pries... ...round floor, which the unavowed propri- etor had had regilt. “It was ten o’clock. The twilight of July and a glorious moon lent us their misty light. ... ...ing, “his wife was listening! Unhappy man!” Eleven was striking by all the clocks, and the guests went home on foot along the seashore. “Still, that i...

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...e from his patron saint. Whilst I was yet gazing upon it the deep tones of—clock proclaimed that it was four o’clock. I went up to the picture, kissed... ...metimes came in upon us suddenly, and very early; sometimes not till ten o’clock, some- times not at all. He was in constant fear of bailiffs. Improv-... ...he house, being regularly locked on his departure to din- ner, about six o’clock, which usually was his final departure for the night. Whether this ch... ...lf, I never fail to visit it when business draws me to London; about ten o’clock this very night, Au- gust 15, 1821—being my birthday—I turned aside f... ...ith her whatever might remain. These ar- rangements made, soon after six o’clock on a dark winter evening I set off, accompanied by Ann, towards Picca... ...ight from that, and every night afterwards, she would wait for me at six o’clock near the bottom of Great Titchfield Street, which had been our custom... ... wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her. It was past eight o’clock when I reached the Gloucester Cof- fee-house, and the Bristol mail be... ... have been nearly midnight, but so slowly did I creep along that I heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned down the lane from Slough to... ... adjusted my dress, at a little public-house in Windsor; and about eight o’clock went down towards Pote’s. On my road I met some junior boys, of whom ...

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... deserve the title of breakfast. When the three sisters sat down at nine-o’clock, in mob caps, and the two younger in white dresses, all had been up a... ...g in the basket. “There can be no need to go to-day.” “The speckled hen is clocking to brood, and she is the best mother in the yard. Besides, it is t... ... never even in these longest summer days pro- longed beyond six or seven o’clock at latest, such was the danger of highwaymen being attracted by the v... ...let me hear of them.” “I will, I will, sir, with all my heart.” By eight o’clock the next evening she was again with him, apologizing for being late. ... ...f you will do use the Pleasure of coming to partake of Dinner at Three o’Clock on T uesday, the 13th instant. “I remain, ... ...ladies will insist on cards and supper. Jumbo shall come for you at nine o’clock.” Aurelia submitted, and tripped down arrayed in the dress that recal... ...nded out of the room, with somewhat curtailed good nights, although nine o’clock, her usual sig- nal, had not yet struck. When she came into the lampl... ...in whom Dr. Godfrey took inter- est, as an Etonian and a Cantab. At nine o’clock Mr. Belamour requested Miss Delavie to let him depute to her the doin... ...ad become animated, and she had re- stored herself to equanimity. When the clock struck nine, her auditor added his thanks, “In case we should not mee...

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...rom five to seven in the morning. The dejeuner or early meal was at nine o’clock, the dinner was at four. After that, no eating or drinking was allowe... ... custom, now for some years past, to retire every evening at about seven o’clock into the sanctum sanctorum of Madame Bauche’s habitation, the dark li...

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...ing undefined and horrible was thought to wag in the case of the eight-day clock; and he could not bear to open the play cupboard lest ‘something’ sho... ...was to give her hus- band a restful evening when he came home to the six o’clock dinner. She also had to make both ends meet on an income which would ... ...ons. It was getting late enough to think of going to prepare for the six o’clock dinner when Emily came forth alone from the path between the trees, a... ...e had been too much pre- occupied to attend to them till, soon after one o’clock, they ended in a heavy fall and long shriek, after which all was stil... ...ell asleep, Clarence first. By and by I found him moving. He had heard the clock strike four, and thought it wiser to repair to his own quar- ters, wh... ...jumping up and leaving doors open. At last, after an hour according to the clock, but far more by our feelings, wheels were heard in the distance; Emi... ...r less before any one returned from the scene of ac- tion—at about three o’clock. The struggle with the flames had been very unequal. The long tongues... ...lly as Anne’s entertain- ment, at its latest, could not last beyond nine o’clock; and the ghostly performances—now entirely laid to the account of the... ...were over, and still there was no sign of him. My father sat up till one o’clock, to let him in, then gave it up, and I heard his step heavily mountin...

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...at about midday, when all would be quiet, (for the servants dined at one o’clock,) I could steal up into her chamber. I imagine that it was about an h... ... house, listening for the sound of wheels. Sunset came—nine, ten, eleven o’clock, and nearly another hour had passed—without a warning sound; for Gree... ...ce with its ghostly predecessors, by the awful apparition which at three o’clock in the afternoon, on the 18th of June, 1815, the mighty contest at Wa... ...tty nearly the same succession of cir- cumstances. Between four and five o’clock we had crossed the bridge to the safe, or Greenhay side; then we paus... ...emakers; which, then, I did not care much about, as it merely put back the clock of our history—throwing us into an earlier, and therefore, per- haps,... ...at had been burned hollow, and cancered by the fierce furnace of life. His clockwork was gone, or carious; only some miserable fragment of a pendulum ... ...c Sketches usages. I was present at the trial. The court opened at eight o’clock in the morning; and such was the interest in the case, that a mob, co... ... appalling coolness of her answers. The trial began, I think, about nine o’clock in the morning; and, as some time was spent on the examination of Mrs... ...e the limits within which we proposed to crowd that little feat? At five o’clock we were to dine at Porters ——, a seat of Lord Westport’s grandfather;...

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...night in watches, and hope to be called to-mor- row at four and get under way by five. It is a great chance if it be managed; but I have given directi... ...own in Apia,’ dictating, and Lloyd type-writ- ing, the conclusion of Samoa; and then at home correcting till the dinner bell; and in the evening again... ...hold—brought a lady and a boy— and there was another infant—eight guests in all. And we sat down thirty strong. You should have seen our proces- sion,... ...e. Yet last evening, when I thought P. was going to repeat the performance, I sent down for Lafaele, who had leave of absence, and he and his wife ca... ...o and put my strength into this beastly business. Do you see me doing that with a catarrh?And if I had done so, what would have been the result? Last ... ...ad a hot bath, a whiskey punch and a cigarette, and went to bed, and to sleep too, at 8. 30; a recrudescence of V ailima hours. Awoke to-day, and had ... ...l himself could not unwind. WEDNESDAY, 28TH JUNE. Yesterday it rained with but little intermission, but I was jealous of news. Graham and I got into t... ...irections that the boy should mount after me with the horse. Try such an experience on Our Road once, and do it, if you please, after you have been do... ...te— and the search-light of the war-ship in the harbour mak- ing a jewel of brightness as it lit up the bay of Apia in the distance. And then next mor...

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...ied with the long detention at a gloomy hotel, I walked out about eleven o’clock at night for the sake of fresh air; mean- ing to fall in with the mai... ...Office, carrying the mails and also a regulated number of passengers, with clockwork precision, at a rate of comparative speed, which he hoped should ... ... 1784 the first mail-coach on Mr. Palmer’s plan started from London at 8 o’clock in the morning and reached Bristol at 11 o’clock at night; and from t...

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...ed neighbourhood. It was cold, starry, and clear, and the road dry, with a touch of frost. For all that, I had not the smallest intention to make a lo... ...nguages. ‘Aha!’ cries he; ‘and you are French, too! Your tongue bewrays you. Two Frenchmen coming into an alehouse, severally and accidentally, not kn... ...tle’s way, with a difference: all things to all women! When I cannot please a woman, hang me in my cravat! CHAPTER XXVIII—EVENTS OF MON- DAY: THE LAWY... ...ieces and nephews, and his grand- nieces and grand-nephews, and his wards, and generally the whole clan of the descendants of his clients, you might d... ...ught this was a precaution so elementary that he was certain to have taken it. If he had not, of course I was all right: Robbie would manage to commun...

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...E ESSAYS was born, as he informs us him- self, between eleven and twelve o’clock in the day, the last of February 1533, at the chateau of St. Michel d... ...led me by name once or twice, and then with a long sigh expired at three o’clock on Wednesday morn- ing, the 18th August 1563, having lived thirty-two... ...m we have lived is worth our money. I was born betwixt eleven and twelve o’clock in the forenoon the last day of February 1533, according to our compu... ...river Hypanis, that never live above a day: they which die at eight of the clock in the morning, die in their youth, and those that die at five in the...

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...reads in the Parliamentary Debates of this Wednesday evening ‘past seven o’clock,’ the scene with the military fugitives from Longwi. Wayworn, dusty, ... ...after his kind. Huge Placards are getting plastered to the walls; at two o’clock the stormbell shall be sounded, the alarm-cannon fired; all Paris sha... ...talics. (Biographie des Ministres (Bruxelles, 1826), p. 96.) At two of the clock, Beaurepaire, as we saw, has shot himself at Verdun; and over Europe,... ... a Day black in the Annals of Men.— The tocsin is pealing its loudest, the clocks inaudibly striking Three, when poor Abbe Sicard, with some thirty ot... ...hrough above the hundred-and-first, for want of a better. ‘Towards seven o’clock’ (Sunday night, at the Abbaye; for Jourgniac goes by dates): ‘We saw ... ... themselves. They were all butchered there, as we shortly gathered. ‘Ten o’clock: The Abbe Lenfant and the Abbe de Chapt- Rastignac appeared in the pu... ...ical of these Pamphlets; and stands testing by documents: ‘Towards seven o’clock, ’ on Sunday night, ‘prisoners were called frequently, and they did n... ...rt, ’ and also ‘on religion. ’ Finally, however, between seven and eight o’clock in the morning, enter four men with bludgeons and sabres!—’to one of ... ...sion made. Till an hour after sunset, the few remaining 55 Thomas Carlyle Clocks of the District striking Seven; at this late time of day Brunswick t...

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...ance; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towards three o’clock, the sun beams out again: the remaining evolutions can be transacted ... ...rrects the proofs; ‘sets out on foot from Auxonne, every morning at four o’clock, for Dole: after looking over the proofs, he par- takes of an extreme... ...his hand, adaman- tine resolution clouding his brows: for two hours by the clocks of Metz. Moody-silent stands Salm, with occasional clangour; but doe... ... as promised, he rolls his drums, and again takes the road. Towards four o’clock, the terror-struck Towns- men may see him face to face. His cannons r... ..., in this point of Space where thou now standest, in this moment which thy clock measures. Or apart from all Transcendentalism, is it not a plain trut... ...ng, like ‘ignes fatui in foul weather, which lead no whither. About ‘ten o’clock at night,’ the Heredi- tary Representative, in partie quarree, with t... ...ocession of a league in length, under the level sun-rays, for it is five o’clock, moves and marches: with its sable plumes; itself in a religious sile... ...g at Saint- Cloud; the King’s Dinner not far from ready there. About one o’clock, the Royal Carriage, with its eight royal blacks, shoots stately into... ...V olume Two three-quarters; ‘seven quarters of an hour, ’ by the Tuileries Clock! Desperate Lafayette will open a passage, were it by the cannon’s mou...

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...l ves- sels he forced to luff and fall under his lee; until, about three o’clock of the afternoon, a great ship of three decks of ordnance took the wi... ...e. It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more... ... end only when you are drowsy. I know a village where there are hardly any clocks, where no one knows more of the days of the week than by a sort of i... ...e out of London, Liverpool, Paris, and a variety of large towns, where the clocks lose their heads, and shake the hours out each one faster than the o... ...ery along with him, in a watch- pocket! It is to be noticed, there were no clocks and watches in the much-vaunted days before the flood. It follows, o... ... a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes, and haunted, even at night, by flaming dial-plates. For ...

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... quite a body of quiet sounds from the interior; doubtless there were many clocks ticking, and people snoring on their backs. And thus, as I fancied, ... ..., the Day of the Week on which most of them were executed, and at 4 of the Clock at Night, being the Hour that most of them went to their rest- ing Gr... ...hung suspended in this manner on the brink of their diversions. From ten o’clock on Sunday night, my friend heard them tuning their instruments: and a...

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...on a table before the fire - the fire is an early luxury, but pleasant on the cool, chilly autumn evening – and is characteristically attended by his ... ...y his portrait, his eight-day clock, and his weather- glass. Characteristically, because he would uphold himself against mankind, his weather-glass a... ...have come to me. They have come to me in the way of business, and I have improved upon my opportunities. Put it that I take an inventory, or make a ca... .... Crisparkle sat with his watch in his hand for about the same period, lest he should overstay his time. The four young people were unanimous in belie... ...t glances on it, and the south-west 115 Charles Dickens wind blew into it unimpeded. Neither wind nor sun, however, favoured Staple Inn one December ... ...ad; ‘that’s very affable.’ Edwin glanced at his face, uncertain whether or no he seriously objected to the appellation. But Edwin might as well have g... ...all possible means. This compact invariably broke down, and all the young ladies went to sleep very soon, and got up very early. The concluding ceremo... ...er world at long intervals to find the city wonderfully shrunken in size, as if it had not washed by any means well in the meanwhile. To these, the st... ...oes not immediately enter, when they have parted, but remains looking after him along the street. Twice he passes the gatehouse, reluctant to enter. A...

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... music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth’s Rooms, in the clock-tower, and out into the terrace, where was a fine prospect of sunset ... ...h the estate came into the present family; how the Roundheads attacked the clock-tower, which my lord’s fa- ther was slain in defending. “I was but tw... ...ross; and pretty small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white pantofles with red heels; and an odor of... ...lace was taken and stormed. The besiegers entered at the terrace under the clock-tower, slaying every man of the garrison, and at their head my lord’s... ...it seemed to him as if the day never would come. It might have been four o’clock when he heard the door of the opposite chamber, the Chaplain’s room, ... ...home. We rode on towards Newbury; we heard firing towards midday: at two o’clock a horseman comes up to us as we were giving our cattle water at an in... ...that figure, with the brocade dress and the white night-rail, and the gold-clocked red stockings, and white red-heeled shoes, sitting up in the bed, a... ...ut ill. Our messenger found the good priest already at his books at five o’clock in the morning, and he followed the man ea- gerly to the house where ...

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... with a clergyman’s gown and a barrister’s band, called on Curll, at ten o’clock at night. He said his name was Smith, that he was a cousin of P .T.’s... ...nd will for ever write. The heaviest Muse the swiftest course has gone, As clocks run fastest when most lead is on; What though no bees around your cr... ...er solitary tea; Or o’er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, H... ...me was, a sober Englishman would knock His servants up, and rise by five o’clock, Instruct his family in every rule, And send his wife to church, his ... ...e me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As, ‘What’s o’clock?’ and, ‘How’s the wind?’ ‘Who’s chariot’s that we left behind?’ ...