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He was still saying it, over and over, demanding, entreating, threatening, to know if it wanted any more, when he felt the fellows of his gang laying hands on him, patting him on the back and trying to put his coat on him. And then came a sudden rush of blackness and oblivion. The tin alarm-clock on the table ticked on, but Martin Eden, his face buried on his arms, did not hear it.
Shutting the door softly behind him he withdrew, smiling to himself. Br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r. The alarm-clock announced the hour imperiously, triumphantly, the importance of the day being manifest in its resonant warning. Kenneth Gregory leaped from his bed and hastily donned a brand-new suit of overalls. A young man's first business engagement was not lightly to be passed over.
At a quarter to seven the alarm-clock went off next her bed how she would have liked to sleep for another hour, or lie warm and cosy under the clothes! The training in the habit of doing what she did not like helped her into a little tin bath, and to dress close to the radiator, as it was a bitterly cold morning.
The reason why Carl did visualize his mother, the reason why the Ericson kitchen became so clear to him that he saw his tired-faced mother reaching up to wind the alarm-clock that stood beside the ball of odd string on the shelf above the water-pail, the reason why he felt caved-in at the stomach, was that he knew he was going to leave Plato, and did not know where in the world he was going.
Examinations seem so silly. Why should you tell a set of men what they know already?" The grimy driver expressed the opinion that examinations were necessary. He who spoke had passed them. "I suppose you can get up at any time," Septimus remarked enviously. "Somebody ought to invent a machine for those who can't." "You only want an alarm-clock," said the driver. Septimus shook his head.
All aboard for the fishing-grounds!" Spurling's voice, reinforcing the last echoes of the alarm-clock, dispelled Percy's inclination to roll over for another nap. Jim's strong tones carried a suggestion of authority which the younger lad was half minded to resent. He swallowed his pride, however, rolled out, and dressed.
THE inhabitants of the little house in Passy were of necessity early risers; but when Susy jumped out of bed the next morning no one else was astir, and it lacked nearly an hour of the call of the bonne's alarm-clock. For a moment Susy leaned out of her dark room into the darker night. A cold drizzle fell on her face, and she shivered and drew back.
These, with the stove, beds, shelves, boxes and boots, constituted the entire furniture of the hut unless you count an alarm-clock, bought by public subscription, and notable for a trick of tinkling faintly, as though wanting to strike but failing, in the watches of the night, hours before its appointed minute had arrived.
A descent from high gardens of moonlight to the reality of the flat, where Lawrence was breathing loudly in her sleep; the oily smell of hairs tangled in her old hair-brush; the sight of the alarm-clock which in just six hours would be flogging her off to the mill.
Beside her bed was an alarm-clock set for half-past three. Connected with the clock was an ingenious arrangement of a falling brick with a string attached to the child's toe. At the entrance of the visitor she started up in bed. "Whoop," she yelled, "I am to be Queen of the May, mother, ye-e!" Then perceiving Tennyson in the doorway, "If that's a caller," she said, "tell him to call me early."
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