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Updated: June 12, 2025
He kept the brown store under the elms of the main street, now hot and still, where at this moment his blushing sister was captivating the heart of an awkward farmer's boy, as she sold him a pair of striped suspenders. As the church-clock struck the last of twelve decided blows, three children came rushing out of the house on the bank above the beach.
All the tumultuary emotions of his mind were endlessly repeated, and many a slow and pealing note of the church-clock had added fuel to his impatience, and spurred him to rush up to the door and claim his rights, before Louis came bounding past the lodge-gates, flourishing his cap, and crying, 'Hurrah, Jem! All right!
If the scheme miscarries, Clarisse and I will rush off to Paris and, together with Prasville, organize a careful watch in the Square Lamartine to prevent d'Albufex from benefiting by Daubrecq's revelations. The great thing is for Prasville to be warned of the danger. He shall be." The church-clock in a neighbouring village struck twelve.
Since I arranged this plan, I endeavoured to get admittance to him, but was repulsed by the sentry. To have insisted would have excited suspicion. He knows, however, that he is to be shot to-morrow, and is not likely to be asleep." Just then the deep sonorous bell of the neighbouring church-clock struck the hour. The two men listened, and counted ten strokes.
The lamplighter passed me with a soft buzz and click of sprocket wheels, and looking back at him idly, I caught the sound of the church-clock at Barnet striking the hour. The chime focussed my thoughts on the great peace of the land. Here at any rate, I thought, man has topped the rise. He has accomplished all he set out to do and the result is peace and happiness.
While he was still standing at the window for even the dreary rain was a relief, because of the sound it made; a relief, also, because it moved, and had some faint suggestion, in consequence, of life and companionship in it while he was standing at the window, and looking vacantly into the black darkness outside, he heard a distant church-clock strike ten. Only ten!
Other watchers are glad to hear this church-clock strike, for they tell of life and coming day. To him they brought despair. The boom of every iron bell came laden with the one, deep, hollow sound Death. What availed the noise and bustle of cheerful morning, which penetrated even there, to him? It was another form of knell, with mockery added to the warning. The day passed off. Day?
The hum grew, as the time drew near, so loud, that those who were at the windows could not hear the church-clock strike, though it was close at hand. Nor had they any need to hear it, either, for they could see it in the people's faces.
Prohack to assume a pontifical manner of unusual dignity. "Is Miss Warburton up yet?" "No, sir. One of the servants knocked at her door some little time ago, but received no answer." "She must be wakened, and I'll write a note that must be given to her immediately." Mr. Prohack wrote: "Please dress at once and come to my study. I want to see you about the church-clock.
Perhaps at bottom some coolness of temperament protected her; nobody, at any rate, suspected that it had anything to do with Isaac, or that she cared a ha'p'orth for so lugubrious and hypocritical a husband. She had showered drinks on all her friends, and had, moreover, clattered and screamed herself hoarse, when the church-clock outside slowly struck eight.
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