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Updated: June 10, 2025
Most of the shops were closed, and the streets looked empty, but there was a lighted clock-face over Mooney's public house, and the hands stood at a quarter past eight. I didn't know where Holloway was, and was hoping they would have to take us through some decent streets to reach it; but we didn't see a part of the city that meant anything to me, or that I would choose to travel through again.
It has a massive portico and steps, before it, heavily balustraded, and adorned with life-sized rusty iron knights in complete armor. The clock-face on the front of the building is very large and of curious pattern.
An illuminated clock-face but blank, featureless, expressionless, useless; in a word, without hands.
The mansion-house will do the near end. Now then mansion-house, near end! Got that?" There is a general chorus of assent. "Very well. I want you to imagine that the base of the mansion-house is the centre of a great clock-face. Where would twelve o'clock be?" The platoon are plainly tickled by this new round-game. They reply "Straught up!" "Right. Where is nine o'clock?" "Over tae the left."
The church, which is not of great size, is in the last and most flamboyant phase of gothic and in admirable preservation; the west front, before which a quaint old sun-dial is laid out on the ground a circle of numbers marked in stone, like those on a clock-face, let into the earth is covered with delicate ornament.
And from this general air the Villa Medici has distilled an essence of its own walled it in and made it delightfully private. The great facade on the gardens is like an enormous rococo clock-face all incrusted with images and arabesques and tablets.
"And now," said the Doctor, glancing up at the great clock-face on which a reflector cast a patch of dim yellow light, "we must be thinking of starting. But don't forget what I have said."
Weeping willows and urns did not appear in the carving at the top until the middle of the eighteenth century, and fought hard with the grinning cherub's head until this century, when both were supplanted by a variety of designs a clock-face, hour-glass, etc.
"Do they so?" asked Caleb, but Nicholas returned, with an unwonted fierceness: "Does that go to the right spot with you? Do you want to see a clock-face starin' over Tiverton, like a full moon, chargin' ye to keep Old War-Wool Eaton in memory?" "Well, no," replied Eli gently, "I dunno's I do, an' I dunno but I do."
The bearings must be kept well oiled, and the weight must never get out of order. The clock-face will tell you when it is running right. If anything gets hitched up here's the crank to keep it going until you can straighten the machine again. It's easy enough to turn it. But you must never let it stop between dark and daylight. The regular turn once a minute that's the mark of this light.
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