clock-strokes

Updated: June 5, 2025

So I sat still like an idiot, and counted the clock-strokes, and nervously calculated the possibility of her reappearance, until I heard, at last, footsteps coming along the hall in rapid tread. I darted up: "Oh, Bessie, I knew you would come back!" as through the open door walked in Mary, Mrs. Sloman's maid! She started at seeing me: "Excuse me, sir.

Sarah C. Hallowell - On the Church Steps

So I sat still like an idiot, and counted the clock-strokes, and nervously calculated the possibility of her reappearance, until I heard, at last, footsteps coming along the hall in rapid tread. I darted up: "Oh, Bessie, I knew you would come back!" as through the open door walked in Mary, Mrs. Sloman's maid! She started at seeing me: "Excuse me, sir.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873