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You can't ease it up much with a string measured out for all the way down!" The young woman operator at the little telegraph station at Dorbury Upper Village heard the call-click as she unlocked the room and came in after her half-hour supper time. She set the wires and responded, and laid the paper slip under the wonderful pins. "Tick-tick-tick; tick-tick; tick-tick-tick-tick," and so on.
Tick-tick-tick-tick went the clock, and, my heart still thumping noisily in my breast, I began to count the tickings; one, two, three, four, five, and so on to a hundred, and from one hundred to many hundreds. Then, out from the confusion of minor noises, a new, arresting sound detached itself.
Tick-tick-tick-tick went the clock, and, with my heart still thumping noisily in my breast, I began to count the tickings; one, two, three, four, five, and so on to a hundred, and from one hundred to many hundreds. Then, out from the confusion of minor noises, a new, arresting sound detached itself.
It was the ticking of the clock upon the mantelpiece; and I thought how this sound must have been familiar to Abel Slattin, how it must have formed part and parcel of his life, as it were, and how it went on now tick-tick-tick-tick whilst he, for whom it had ticked, lay unheeding would never heed it more.
It was the ticking of the clock upon the mantelpiece; and I thought how this sound must have been familiar to Abel Slattin, how it must have formed part and parcel of his life, as it were, and how it went on now tick-tick-tick-tick whilst he, for whom it had ticked, lay unheeding would never heed it more.
"Yes, I suppose so." Joan vanished. Mrs. Brandon sat, staring before her, her mind running with the clock tick-tick-tick-tick and then suddenly jumping at the mellow liquid gurgle that it sometimes gave. Would her husband come in and say good-night? How she had grown, during these last weeks, to loathe his kiss!
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