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There he kept it with his breath subdued, and the alarum severely quelled. An owl's call sounded on the shore, extremely pensive in its note, and natural, but unusual in the rhythm of its repetition. It might have passed for the veritable call of the woods to an unsuspicious ear, but Montaiglon knew it for a human signal.
She had fallen into a deep sleep in the low window-seat, with her pale forehead against the pane; a sleep so deep that even the alarum of the baby did not rouse her, nor the entrance of Emma with the hot water. "James," said Mrs. Gresley, an hour later; as she and her husband returned through the white mist from early celebration, "Hester was not there. I thought she had promised to come."
Far off, far off, the phantasmal stroke of hoofs, rapid, many, unswerving. It had come, all that he had awaited, fate, or something else. Low and clear in the distance one bugle blew blast of warning. When he rose, the great yellow planet, wheeling slowly down the giant cleft in the rock, had vanished from sight. Every man was on his feet, the place in alarum.
It passed with its other-worldliness and the fine holiness which belongs to beauty, passed and left the tormenting realism of life. Ah! to live with only the inner meaning, spiritual and beautifed, in a rare wonderment such as he had experienced just now! His alarum clock, while he knelt in his narrow, monkish little room ticked the evening hour away into darkness.
At once on all her stately gates Arose the answering fires; At once the wild alarum clashed From all her reeling spires; From all the batteries of the Tower Pealed loud the voice of fear; And all the thousand masts of Thames Sent back a louder cheer
She's the worthiest woman alive, and I don't shirk my duty. Be quiet! he bellowed at the alarum; 'I 'm coming. Don't be in such a fright, my dear, he admonished it as his wife, politely. 'Your hand'll take an hour to warm if you keep it out on the spring that sets the creature going. He turned and informed his company: 'Her hand'll take an hour to warm. Dear! how she runs ahead: d' ye hear?
I will let you have my little clock, and you can set the alarum at whatever time you wish to get up." "Yes; I really am going to turn over a new leaf about that; but you know, mother, I shall feel more obliged to get up now when I am responsible for things going right. Oh, dear! what a dreadful thought! I am sure I shall never manage.
I do; I say again, I do. It is for your sake that I wish you, under the auspices of Mrs General, to form a hum a surface. He had been running down by jerks, during his last speech, like a sort of ill-adjusted alarum. The touch was still upon his arm. He fell silent; and after looking about the ceiling again for a little while, looked down at her.
They seem a little oppressed with care, too preoccupied to relish the entrancing pallor of this crystallized Eden. One carries, gravely, a cushion and an alarm clock. Not such a bad theory of life, perhaps to carry in the crises of existence a cushion of philosophy and an alarum of resolution.
A black sofa, a table littered with papers, two big easy-chairs, a chest of drawers with an alarum clock by way of ornament, a very low bedstead with a coverlet flung over it a red cloth with a black key border all these things made part of a whole that told of a life reduced to its simplest terms.
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