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Updated: June 25, 2025
In the evening, Marat, who was the chief author of the 2nd of June, repaired to the Hotel de Ville, ascended the clock-tower himself, and rang the tocsin; he called upon the members of the council not to separate till they had obtained a decree of accusation against the traitors and the "statesmen."
But in the courtyard, although the three storeys above the ground-floor rise as high as the clock-tower of the Tuileries, the infinite delicacy of the architecture reveals itself to the rapture of our astonished eyes.
It was all very quiet and very picturesque, rather in miniature; and at once very tidy and a little out of repair. This, however, was but a meagre back-view of La Rochelle, or poor side-view at best. There are other gates than the small fortified aperture just mentioned; one of them, an old gray arch beneath a fine clock-tower, I had passed through on my way from the station.
A little way back from the road there is a church, with a clock-tower, and a snug-looking house, standing in a garden, where the parish priest lives. Just outside the village we notice a meadow, in which there is a wooden shed open at one side, with benches in it, and reminding us of the little pavilions we often see on village cricket-grounds in England.
Get quick will you? into one of the smaller boats by the quay there is one just under the crane that is an air-boat you have seen me turn on the air, haven't you? that handle on the right as you descend the steps under the dial-thing get first a bucket of oil from the shop next to the clock-tower in the quay-street, and throw it over everything that you see rusted.
London had been reeking in a green-yellow fog, but here the mist was white, and through it I caught glimpses of the silhouettes of stately trees in a park, and presently saw the great house with its clock-tower looming up before me.
This "love of the clock-tower" is not only Belgian, or Italian, or English; it is essentially a European trait, as opposed to Asiatic Imperialism, and may even be found in Republican Rome and in ancient Greece.
They were buried in dust in the dark room in the clock-tower. Here is such a characteristic one. It has a long powdered wig George the First or Second, I don't know which and such a combination of colours, and such a face. It seems starting out of the canvas, and all but speaks. Do look; that is, I mean, Bale, if you can spare time."
What gorgeous colouring! it looks like the plumage of a mackaw; and what a claw his hand is! and that huge broken beak of a nose! Isn't he like a wicked old mackaw?" "Where did you find that?" asked Sir Bale. Surprised at his tone, she looked round, and was still more surprised at his looks. "I told you, dear Bale, I found them in the clock-tower.
"I'll bring it you in half an hour, aboard the yacht," said Phelim, and he started across the Piazza. Lady Nora went on toward the landing. The earl stood watching her. She did not look back. The earl looked up at the clock-tower. "In half an hour," he said to himself, "he will bring it to her, aboard the yacht;" and he turned and re-entered the church.
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