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Updated: May 25, 2025
Tic tack, clic clack, went the little telegraph instrument at one end of the quarter-deck, and clic clack, tic tack answered an instrument at the other end, hour after hour through the long, warm mornings, and the longer, warmer afternoons.
The little soldier made straight for the fireplace, seized the tongs, and was stooping down to look for a nice red hot coal with which to light his pipe, when clic! something went, like a spring giving way, and in the very midst of the flames an enormous serpent reared itself up close to his face. And what was more strange still, this serpent had the head of a woman.
When he got to the closet, he opened it, took down the tunic, and brought it to the first room. 'Here it is, he panted, rather out of breath. 'Clic! once more the flames parted. Ludovine was a woman down to her waist. She took the tunic and put it on. It was a magnificent tunic of orange velvet, embroidered in pearls, but the pearls were not so white as her own neck.
A man with Howard's constitution could only purchase the hours last night with the hours of this morning. Success would not come to me to-morrow unless I were willing to struggle for it to-day. "What did you drink?" I asked, after a pause. "Maraschino, cognac, and clic," he answered, and a gesture of his hand and first finger showed he meant in the same glass. I laughed. "What a mixture!
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