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Unconsciously he had set his heart on them; but his clock-like mind at once grasped the logic of this argument, and he met it generously. "Your point is well taken. It proves the wisdom of getting the advice of a woman on such a matter. Now I had thought also of a book " "I'll tell you!" cried Sharlee, nearly bowled over by a brilliant inspiration.
Light footsteps upon a gravel walk could be heard on the other side of the fence, and a trio of cloaked and umbrella-screened figures were for a moment discernible. They vanished behind the gymnasium; and again nothing resounded but the river murmurs and the clock-like drippings of the leafage. 'Hush! said Dare. 'No pranks, my boy, said De Stancy suspiciously. 'You should be above them.
Up, Wallace! and you Gelert, and my bonny Lorne. Ho! ho! Away, away, my bonny dogs! Away! away!" Grandly did they respond. They too have caught the enthusiasm of the hour, and as in clock-like unison in those long, light traces they stretched themselves out and fairly flew over the icy surface, they seemed to lift the light sled and its driver as a thing of naught. Steady, Alec!
This last is remarkable on account of the clock-like regularity with which its flowers expand. While fresh, they open every day between eleven and twelve o'clock, and close again about one, however strong the sunlight shining upon them may be.
In the war with France Von Moltke, though too old to lead the armies in person, was virtually commander-in-chief, and arranged those masterly combinations which overthrew all the power of France in so remarkably brief a period. Under his directions, from the moment war was declared everything worked with clock-like precision.
It was picturesque, but it was intensely gloomy; the proper spot for a catastrophe rather than a happy denouement. I was not impressionable, of course; but now that I thought of it, our jaunt had been going with a smoothness almost ominous. Could one expect such clock-like regularity to run forever without a break? Take the utter disappearance of the gray car, for instance.
In her resistless, onward sweep, in the clock-like precision of her daily and nightly revolution, in the well-known pictured forms of her continents and seas, now no longer dark and doubtful, but shedding forth a planetary light, well might he ask what had become of all the aspirations and anxieties, the pleasures and agony of life.
And behind it is the fatalistic doctrine that the movement cannot be arrested or diverted; that it is useless to struggle against it; that men, whatever they may do, cannot deflect the clock-like motion regulated by a power which de Tocqueville calls Providence but to which his readers might give some other name.
He seemed to foresee everything for there was not an instant's hesitation in the clock-like assiduity of his movements, as he bestowed handkerchiefs, in one drawer, socks in another, hung pyjamas before the fire, and set the patent-leather pumps against the fender. Even the old Mexican shooting-suit seemed in no way to disconcert him.
A nightmare seemed to have settled upon me as I passed into the interior of the correctional. "I resigned my name, and I seemed to die to myself for henceforth. 332B disclosed my identity to myself and others. "Through all the weeks that followed I was like one in a dream. Meal times, resting hours, as did every other thing, came with clock-like precision.
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