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He stood on his head and bellowed, and all the circus hands came rushing up. Finally the alarm clock quit jingling, and they caught the seal and pulled the clock off his tooth, and just then pa came up to me and said: "What deviltry you boys up to now? Suppose that seal had swallowed that clock, and you couldn't wind it up; it might kill him.
The old clock struck half-past eight, then it half struck a quarter to nine, then slowly it struck striking. Presently Enderby rose, picked a lantern from its hook, "Mortgage or no mortgage," he said, "I must see to the stock."
In opposing the measure he objected to disestablishment, because he was in favor of the union of Church and State. Mr. Gladstone eloquently concluded as follows: "As the clock points rapidly towards the dawn, so as rapidly flow out the years, the months, the days, that remain to the existence of the Irish Established Church.... Not now are we opening this great question.
Once or twice the county court had appropriated money to have the clock brought back within the bounds of reason, but a more pressing need had always served to swallow up the sum thus set aside. A stone planted at one corner of the public square marked the site of a bit of bloody history.
Taylor is the lady who first came to board here, and told us and others about it," said Emily. "Yes, and she's the kindest lady in the world! I'll tell you all about her some day, it's real interesting; now I must see to my pies, and get the vegetables on," answered Becky, glancing at the gay clock in the kitchen with an anxious look. "Then I won't waste any more of your precious time.
Hartright. What hour is the clock to strike?" "Nine, to-morrow morning." "Nine, to-morrow morning? Yes, yes your trap is laid for me before I can get my passport regulated and leave London. It is not earlier, I suppose? We will see about that presently I can keep you hostage here, and bargain with you to send for your letter before I let you go.
He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.
For this purpose I put the footstool in a chair, and mounting, was about to move the long hand, when But I always was the most unfortunate of mortals, so it was no wonder that at this point the chair slipped, the stool slipped, and I slipped. I caught at the clock to save myself; consequently both clock and I came to the floor with a terrible crash.
And so to the Cherry Garden, and then by water singing finely to the Bridge, and there landed; and so took boat again, and to Somersett House. And by this time, the tide being against us, it was past ten of the clock; and such a troublesome passage, in regard of my Lady Paulina's fearfullness, that in all my life I never did see any poor wretch in that condition.
He sank for a few moments into a fit of gloomy abstraction, till the sound of the clock striking twelve made him start, it was the only sound he had heard for some hours, and the sounds produced by inanimate things, while all living beings around are as dead, have at such an hour an effect indescribably awful.
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