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Why, you see, dearie, living here all alone by myself it only made one more thing to dust; so I sold it." Evelina's eyes were still travelling about the familiar room. Though it was against all the traditions of the Bunner family to sell any household possession, she showed no surprise at her sister's answer. "And the clock? The clock's gone too." "Oh, I gave that away I gave it to Mrs. Hawkins.
Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady, The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time. Well, be it so prepare, my soul is ready, Companions of the grave the rest for crime! Now take, O world! my last farewell receiving My parting kisses in these tears they dwell! Sweet are thy poisons while we taste believing, Now we are quits heart-poisoner, fare-thee-well!
The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe. His heaven-insulting purpose, God may wedge aside. I would up heart, were it not like lead. But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again. Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them!
The windows looked out upon a whitewashed wall, about two arshins distant, and in the space between them there grew a small lilac-bush. Not a sound penetrated from without, and in the stillness the measured, friendly stroke of the clock's pendulum seemed to beat quite loudly.
Yet who could blame the little fellow if his heart throbbed with unwonted vigour all that morning, and that he watched the clock's hands anxiously as they crept slowly, but steadily, round the dial, yellow with age and service. Frank had adopted an unconcerned, if not defiant air, which told plainly enough that he had no idea of submitting quietly to the inevitable ordeal. He was a born fighter.
Clock's silver watch and gold chain?" He replied by simply handing me five dollars. I then returned to Mr. Clock, made the trade and also received from him five dollars.
If I had it in me to love a man against my reason and my conscience I could not tell. "It's eleven o'clock," I said. "I thought you told me he would be here by half-past ten." She ceased to fidget with the furniture, and came to the mantelpiece by which I was standing. "The clock's wrong," she said. "Fast, a good half-hour."
"'When the house do sigh and weep And the world is drowned in sleep, Yet my eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!" "And then the clock's ticking is a wonderful comfort. Tick-tack, tick-tack! and I think of you stretched asleep and happy and growing up to be a man, and the minutes running and trickling away to my deliverance " "Granny!"
All at once the boy started. "What's that?" he cried. "La, Custer, how you startle a body! It's the town bell. I should think you'd know; you've heard it often enough." As she spoke she glanced at the clock on the shelf in the corner of the room. "I guess that clock's stopped again," she added, but in the silence that followed her words they both heard it tick. The bell rang on.
Ruth's father's vanished history was of less importance than the clock's statement that it was midnight. Her "Now, mother, we're later and later. It's striking to-morrow, now!" referred to present life and present bedtime, and her rapid adjustment of the spools meant business. The old Granny showed no sense of having escaped an embarrassment. She did not shy off to another subject.
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