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She is a great favourite with the matron, Mrs. Hull, and the house surgeon, and especially with the operating surgeon. He is always asking to have Miss Millar in his cases since that boy had his leg cut off." "I know, I know," chimed in Rose, "the little boy who begged you to wait till he had said his prayers, and when he could not do it for himself, Annie was able to do it for him.
"They dare not!" said Mauleverer, quaffing his fourth glass of madeira. "Well, I have decided on my change of life," said the lawyer, with a slight sigh. "So have I on my change of opinion," chimed in the earl. "I will tell you what opinions seem to me like." "What?" said Brandon, abstractedly. "Trees!" answered Mauleverer, quaintly.
Although he was a clergyman and a lover of peace, he was none the less a patriot. "Upon my word!" he said. "Wireless, you think, my boy?" "I'm sure of it, sir," said Dick. "And so'm I," chimed in Jack. "You know, sir, I've thought ever since war seemed certain that Bray Park would bear a lot of watching and that something ought to be done.
'Quicker, quicker, quicker! Nedopyuskin chimed in, speaking very fast. It was late in the evening when I left Bezsonovo.... It was two years after my visit that Panteley Eremyitch's troubles began his real troubles. Disappointments, disasters, even misfortunes he had had before that time, but he had paid no attention to them, and had risen superior to them in former days.
"Yes, Jim," continued Jack, "and then I'd want with the biscuits and 'taters plenty of that rich yaller butter that Bill's wife made herself, with her own hands, and then you know Bill always had lots of honey, and I'd spread honey and butter on one of them biscuits, and " "And don't you remember, Jack," chimed in Jim, "the mince pies Bill's wife could make?
'Yes, yes, naibour Crickett, said Springrove, 'but she'll vlee in a passion all the fat will be in the fire and there's an end o't.... Yes, she is a one, continued the farmer, resting, raising his eyes, and reading the features of a distant apple. 'True: a one is she, the clerk chimed in, shaking his head ominously. 'She has such a temper, said the farmer, 'and is so wilful too.
The sun had set; the glowing tints faded fast, till of the brilliant spectacle naught remained save the soft roseate hue which melted insensibly into the deep azure of the zenith. Quiet seemed settling o'er mountain and river, when, with a solemn sweetness, the vesper bells chimed out on the evening air.
Denzil puffed his cigarette, unembarrassed. Peter bent attentively over his work, making nervous stabs with his awl. There was a long silence. An organ-grinder played a waltz outside, unregarded; and, failing to annoy anybody, moved on. Denzil lit another cigarette. The dirty-faced clock on the wall chimed twelve. "What do you think," said Crowl, "of Republics?" "They are low," Denzil replied.
Even when Allison began to sing "O Warwick Hall," and she chimed in with the others, "Dear Warwick Hall," she was not thinking of school, but of the Cuckoo's Nest, and Davy, and the old weather-beaten meeting-house, in whose window she had passed so many summer afternoons, reading the musty dog-eared books she found in the little red bookcase.
They danced and played, and sang and talked, till midnight chimed from the old eight-day clock in the hall, a sound which struck almost as much consternation to Bessie's soul as if she had been Cinderella at the royal ball. 'TWELVE O'CLOCK! and the little ones all up! she exclaimed, looking round the circle of towzled heads with remorseful eyes. 'What would mother say?
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