... a bit,” was his comment. “I suppose I may call myself that—since eleven o’clock,” I said. Hamilton had stopped eating at the sound of our voices. He ... ... well. Solemnly he lowered it down again and only then said: “Just three o’clock. Y ou will be in time—if you don’t lose any, that is.” “In time for w... ...est her captain officially to give me a passage and wait for me till ten o’clock. Then he rose from his office chair, and I got up, too. My head swam,... ...long, sir! We have been delayed three hours for you… . Our time is seven o’clock, you know!” I stepped on the deck. I said “No! I don’t know.” The spi... ...ded day-dreaming state? I would have been more disconcerted if, having the clock set in the top of the mirror- frame right in front of me, I had not n... ...o raise my voice it was with a pang of remorse and pity. Then about four o’clock in the morning a light would gleam forward in the galley. The unfaili... ...r murmur of any kind, and all our hearts would cease to beat like run-down clocks. It was impossible to shake off that sense of finality. The qui- etn...

...onward side by side with him. “You are late, Goodman Brown,” said he. “The clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston, and that is f... ...m the streets, as if churlishly disinclined to inform the wayfarers what o’clock it was. Seated within the shop, sidelong to the window with his pale ... ...nt fall into the abyss of the past in golden drops of harmony. If a family clock was intrusted to him for re pair,—one of those tall, ancient clocks ... ...f sagacious un derstandings who think that life should be regulated, like clockwork, with leaden weights, the alteration was entirely for the better.... ...quired, Owen Warland was invited by the proper authorities to regulate the clock in the church steeple. He succeeded so admirably in this mat 166 Mo... ...rely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible. It was a circumstance, though minute, yet characteristi... ...uch good ac counts of you from all quarters, and especially from the town clock yonder, which speaks in your commendation every hour of the twenty fo... ... permitted Father Time, so far as the old gentleman was represented by the clocks and watches under his con trol, to stray at random through human li...

...ord there opened my eyes in time. No better than the rest of ‘em—’ And the clock striking eight, he quickened his pace to re- turn to his work. He had... ...essible, and with mortars firing double-hand grenades. They were dandelion clocks, and there were nettles to act the part of poisoned spikes on the br... ...usehold cares over all too soon, on a cold light March afternoon, with the clock ticking loud enough for midnight, the smoke-jack indulging in superna... ...ering was not the sole thought. ‘Walby is coming with the leeches at two o’clock,’ said Lord Ormersfield: ‘I reckon much on them.’ ‘Thank you.’ Silenc... ...in proper time at night. The very last evening, he had come in at eleven o’clock, and when his master rebuked him, came out with something about the r... ...ced to give in, before much harm could be done; but it was not till five o’clock that the hoofs were heard on the gravel; and Jem went out to revenge ... ... was often in the habit of walk- ing to Ormersfield church for the three o’clock service, and asking Mary to join him. Their return was almost always ... ...rite theme, what to wish for her little brother, when the sound of a large clock striking three made Isabel ask where she was. 195 Yo n g e ‘It was t... ...king three made Isabel ask where she was. 195 Yo n g e ‘It was the stable clock at Ormersfield,’ said Mary, ‘did you not know we were on that road?’ ...

... He said that he was “going to shoot big game, and left at half-past ten o’clock in an ekka. Partridge—which was the only thing a man could get near t... ... we struck across country for the Station. We walked from eight till six o’clock in the morning; but though we were dead-tired, we did not forget to g... ..., feeling more like murderers than ever. Then we went to bed and slept the clock round; for there was no more in us. The tale had credence as long as ... ...and the old pad into the mare’s withers, when she was coming home at two o’clock in the morning. She would not have reared, bolted, fallen into a ditc... ...ed it, and picked it up. She had heard the crash of Platte’s cart at two o’clock that morning, and his voice calling the mare names. She knew Platte a... ... place. The mes- sage ran then:—”A widow dhak flower and bhusa—at eleven o’clock.” The pinch of bhusa enlightened T rejago. He saw— this kind of lette... ...n the Gully in which is the heap of bhusa, desires you to come at eleven o’clock.” T rejago threw all the rubbish into the fireplace and laughed. He k... ...ut, left his card, and stole the Bisara of Pooree from its place under the clock on the mantelpiece! Stole it like the thief he was by nature. Three d...

...of them, they act as Graham would do, if he should form all the parts of a clock in the most exquisite manner, yet put them so together that the clock... ...y, we might say that there was a small defect in the con- stitution of the clock. 12 Amelia To say the truth, Graham would soon see the fault, and wo... ... alleged against her that she was found walking the streets after twelve o’clock, and the watchman declared he believed her to be a common strumpet. S... ...n to partake of her homely fare, and down they sat to supper together. The clock struck twelve; and, no news being arrived of Booth, Mrs. Ellison bega... ...merly. I am no stranger to the melan- 180 Amelia choly tone of a midnight clock. It was my misfortune to drag on a heavy chain above fifteen years wi... ...ooked at without the highest admiration. His lordship departed about ten o’clock, and left the com- pany in raptures with him, especially the two ladi... ... of her virtue doth, in that very moment, betray the citadel. “About two o’clock we returned home, and found a very handsome collation provided for us... ...d by the maid that he was gone forth, and that it was no more than seven o’clock. All this you may believe, madam, alarmed me. I saw plainly he had di... ...as very late, the colonel never offering to stir from his chair before the clock had struck one; when he thought, perhaps, that decency obliged him to...

...d the room to his portfolio, placed it on the table and noticed the mantel clock. “I don’t know if you’d care to have supper with me,” he said with an... ... He paused. “With you.” There came a tense silence, and then the beating a clock striking the hour. She made him no answer. Graham rose. “Even now,” h...

...ONTGOMERY interrupted my tangle of mystification and suspicion about one o’clock, and his grotesque attendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, ...

... XXXVI AN INCIDENT THE DINNER-HOUR of Scotland Sixty Years since was two o’clock. It was therefore about four o’clock of a delightful autumn afternoon... ...they were awakened, and summoned to attend the Prince. The distant village-clock was heard to toll three as they hastened to the place where he lay. H...

...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...

...ark and silent tenements. The residents, who lighted their lamps at five o’clock in the month of June, in winter never put them out. T o this day the ... ...aneling of an old-fashioned alcove; but in the afternoon, by about three o’clock, when the candles were lighted, through the pane of the first room an... ...the last three days; but his hours vary. The first day he came by at six o’clock, the day before yesterday it was four, yesterday as early as three. I... ...ch regu- lar hours as the clerks who served Madame Crochard in- stead of a clock; moreover, excepting on the first occasion, when his look had given t... ... of youth, his smile was quite affectionate and childlike. When, at five o’clock, this happy meal was ended with a few glasses of champagne, Roger was... ...lk with green fringe, were always half drawn to subdue the light; a bronze clock represented Love crowning Psyche; and a carpet of Gothic design on a ... ...ll, go,” said she, with a pretty pout, but she smiled as she looked at the clock and exclaimed joyfully, “At any rate, I have detained you a quarter o... ...he hotel where the High Chancellor of the Empire resided, at about three o’clock one morning. Having reached the courtyard in full evening dress, unde... ...nth; but a number of details were in ridiculous discord. The consoles, the clocks, the candelabra, were deco- rated with the military trophies which t...

...nder glass shades, filled with artificial flowers; and there are plenty of clocks. The whole party are in motion. The brave Courier, in particular, is... ... as I did! For this reason, I should abstain from mentioning the cu rious clock in Lyons Cathedral, if it were not for a small 14 Pictures from Ital... ...itching in the gait, which usu ally attaches to figures that are moved by clock work. Mean while, the Sacristan stood explaining these wonders, and ... ... and then flame out again. Minutes! Seconds are not marked upon the Palace clock, when, with her eyes flashing fire, Goblin is up, in the middle of th... ...s quantity of oaths and grimaces, came stu pidly alongside; and by five o’clock we were steaming out in the open sea. The vessel was beautifully clea... ...r it may have been, and his messenger departed: well sat isfied. At six o’clock in the evening we went to the church— close at hand—a very gaudy plac... ...ce by daylight, in the cool of the afternoon; commencing at four or five o’clock, and lasting, some three hours. It is curious, sitting among the audi... ... margin of the Sea. The Boat which started for Nice that night, at eight o’clock, was very small, and so crowded with goods that there was scarcely ro... ...tic protege, he lay down among the wool, and began to snore. It was four o’clock before we were released; and the French man, dirty and woolly, and s...

... after.” All hands worked on in silence for some minutes, until the church clock began to strike six. Before the first stroke had died away, Sandy Jim... ... can’t abide to see men throw away their tools i’ that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i’ their work and was a... ...reckon. I hate to see a man’s arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock’s fairly struck, just as if he’d never a bit o’ pride and delight in ... ...oice that you hear, as Lisbeth says, “Well, my lad, it’s gone seven by th’ clock. Thee’t allays stay till the last child’s born. Thee wants thy supper... ...ing supper when here’s a coffin promised to be ready at Brox’on by seven o’clock to-morrow morning, and ought to ha’ been there now, and not a nail st... ... always silenced. So the hours passed, to the loud ticking of the old day- clock and the sound of Adam’s tools. At last he called for a light and a dr... ... Seth comes. He wonna be long now, I reckon.” It was then past nine by the clock, which was always in advance of the days, and before it had struck te... ... no sound was to be heard in the house but the loud ticking of the old day-clock and the ringing of Adam’s tools. The night was very still: when Adam ... ...he night was very still: when Adam opened the door to look out at twelve o’clock, the only motion seemed to be in the glowing, twinkling stars; every ...

...rouble enough to get you to it! Joe!” “Halloa!” the guard replied. “What o’clock do you make it, Joe?” “T en minutes, good, past eleven.” “My blood!” ... ...ng in Hang ing sword alley, Whitefriars: the time, half past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty. (... ...rowling over it like any four footed inmate of a menagerie. Towards nine o’clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and bu... ...at he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity. “Ten o’clock, sir,” said the man at the tavern, whom he had charged to wake him “t... ..., sir,” said the man at the tavern, whom he had charged to wake him “ten o’clock, sir.” “What’s the matter?” “T en o’clock, sir.” “What do you mean? T... ..., sir.” “What’s the matter?” “T en o’clock, sir.” “What do you mean? Ten o’clock at night?” “Yes, sir. Your honour told me to call you.” A Tale of Two... ...nistered to the lion in the same manner, and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning. “And now we have done, Sydney, fill a b... ...e?” “Guess.” “Do I know her?” “Guess.” “I am not going to guess, at five o’clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. if y... ...t for you.” Accordingly, when Mr. Lorry called that night as late as ten o’clock, Mr. Stryver, among a quantity of books and papers littered out for t...

... the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went 28 Dombey & Son along. It was soon gone again to return n... ...sion, he would have believed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City, and even of the very Sun itself. Such as he... ...the state of the weather, it often blew great guns. It is half-past five o’clock, and an autumn afternoon, when the reader and Solomon Gills become ac... ...ter, and said, without any introductory remark: ‘I suppose he could make a clock if he tried?’ ‘I shouldn’t wonder, Captain Cuttle,’ returned the boy.... ...e, making a species of ser- pent in the air with his hook. ‘Lord, how that clock would go!’ For a moment or two he seemed quite lost in contemplat- in... ...eys to Banbury Cross and back, took sharp note of the furniture, the Dutch clock, the cupboard, the castle on the mantel-piece with red and green wind... ...City; also to wait at the street corner where she would be left, until the clock struck three. These directions Mrs Brown enforced with assurances tha... ...udible. Pointing out this gate- way , and informing Florence that when the clocks struck three she was to go to the left, Mrs Brown, after making a pa... ...n the street, and more and more bewildered by it; and in the meanwhile the clocks appeared to have made up their minds never to strike three any more....

...ome wards, but these interruptions were not frequent and soon ceased. The clocks struck one. Still I paced up and down, promising myself that every t... .... A cheerful fire was blaz ing on the hearth, the lamp burnt brightly, my clock received me with its old familiar welcome; everything was quiet, warm... ... without requiring the assistance of a candle. Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness... ...anack, an inkstand with no ink, and the stump of one pen, and an eight day clock which hadn’t gone for eighteen years at least, and of which the minut... ...een so tormented, so worried, that it’s a mercy we were not here at four o’clock in the after noon. Alick has been in such a state of impatience to c... ...believe that he was dressed before dinner time and has been looking at the clock and teas ing me ever since. It’s all your fault, you naughty thing. ... ...tomed to sit. If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in ... ...e time went on, he mani fested some anxiety and surprise, glancing at the clock more frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. At leng... ...re frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. At length, the clock was hidden from his sight by some envious shutters, then the church s...

...lamp to gas-lamp in a night without end; and the drowsy ticking of the old clock on the landing became dis- tinctly audible in the bedroom. Mrs V erlo... ...to-night,” she murmured, after a pause which lasted for three ticks of the clock. Mr V erloc cared nothing for Stevie’s excitement, but he felt horrib... ... do you know?” “They have been yelling the news in the streets since two o’clock. I bought the paper, and just ran in here. Then I saw you sitting at ... ...untroubled as- surance. While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man’s back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scr... ...well,” he said, and paused, as if in deliberate con- tempt of the official clock. “But what first put you in motion in this direction?” “I have been a... ...ook `ere, young feller. `Ow’d you like to sit behind this `oss up to two o’clock in the morning p’raps?” Stevie looked vacantly into the fierce little... ...was changing slowly into dread. “Y ou may well look! Till three and four o’clock in the morn- ing. Cold and `ungry. Looking for fares. Drunks.” His jo... ... erloc. All was so still without and within that the lonely ticking of the clock on the landing stole into the room as if for the sake of company. Mr ... ... woman here all day. I shall do very well with Stevie.” She let the lonely clock on the landing count off fifteen ticks into the abyss of eternity, an...

...morning to do some shopping for me, and was to go on to Bellomont at one o’clock, and my aunt’s house is closed, and I don’t know a soul in town.” She... ...oth laughed for pure pleasure in their sudden intimacy. She glanced at the clock. “Dear me! I must be off. It’s after five.” She paused before the man... ... an intermediate space between the butler and the man who came to wind the clocks. Even to the eyes of infancy, Mrs. Hudson Bart had appeared young; b... ...ive stroke which finally, after a lapse of time recorded in minutes by the clock, in hours by the precipi- tate beat of her pulses, put her in possess... ...me from Paquin.” Mrs. Peniston rose abruptly, and, advancing to the ormolu clock surmounted by a helmeted Minerva, which throned on the chimney-piece ... ...ll right, then: that’s a go. Will you come tomorrow? To- morrow at three o’clock, at the end of the Mall. I’ll be there sharp, remember; you won’t go ... ...It was the loneliness that frightened her. Her eyes fell on an illuminated clock at a street corner, and she saw that the hands marked the half hour a... ...rd; I believe I had a card from her.” He glanced at the foolish pink-faced clock that was drumming out this hid- eous hour. “A quarter past ten? I mig... ...med like some cruel creature experimenting in a laboratory. The pink-faced clock drummed out another hour, and Gerty rose with a start. She had an app...

...fresh the feebler sort. Pilgrim’s Progress. A CAMP IN THE DARK THE NEXT DAY (T uesday, September 24th), it was two o’clock in the afternoon before I g... ...helf four yards long and garnished with lanterns and reli- gious statuettes, its array of chests and pair of ticking clocks, was the very model of wha... ...ys. They were intelligent and conversible, and we decided the future of France over hot wine, until the state of the clock fright- ened us to rest. Th... ...afar off by the glint of the moon 84 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne on his extinguished lantern. Before ten o’clock we had got in and were at s...

...oking through that keyhole with short intervals of rest, ever since nine o’clock this morning, in expectation of receiving an answer to one of the mos... ... enough to buy it. But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clock- work, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pre... ... own bearing, and caused him to feel even more shy than usual. There was a clock in the room, which the stranger often turned 74 Martin Chuzzlewit to... ...ing on towards that hour. Whenever the stranger caught him looking at this clock, a kind of confusion came upon Tom as if he had been found out in som... ...stable to be ready for us ten minutes ago,’ said Mr Pinch, glancing at the clock again. ‘Shall we go?’ ‘If you please,’ returned the other. ‘Would you... ...dge. In a sombre corner on the first landing, stood a gruff old giant of a clock, with a preposterous coronet of three brass balls on his head; whom f... ...ortalised in a ballad. The usual Sunday dinner-hour at Todgers’s was two o’clock—a suitable time, it was considered for all parties; convenient to Mrs... ... the oddest closets possible, with little casements in them like eight-day clocks, lurking in the wainscot and taking the shape of the stairs; and the... ... delay. To which Mr Bailey modestly replied that ‘he hoped he knowed wot o’clock it wos in gineral, and didn’t date his letters to his friends from To...

...refix’d for’s parting: yet, good deed, Leontes, I love thee not a jar o’ the clock behind What lady she her lord. You’ll stay? POLIXENES: ... ...lible Of breaking honesty—horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift? Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes Blind wit...