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'There now stop, I have only tried to be just, said I, looking exultingly at my smiling sister, who took off a little gold stud and gave it to her with many wishes of a happy life. Everything went on regularly as clock-work. There was a place for everything, and everything in its place.
Wooden clocks even came to view, for Berchtesgaden neighbors also emigrated; and Swiss came, and Bavarians and French: and old trades were revived in those new localities. Something beautifully real-idyllic in all this, surely: Yet do not fancy that it all went on like clock-work; that there were not jarrings at every step, as is the way in things real.
Well-shaved, and with his stomach warmed by a cup of coffee, he left home at eight in the morning with the regularity of clock-work, always passing along the same streets on his way to the ministry: so neat was he, so formal, so starched that he might have been taken for an Englishman on the road to his embassy.
On being dragged through the water the propeller spins round and the twisting action is communicated by the cord to the clock-work machinery which counts the miles.
"I don't think this is so good a tub as the last, Tomkins, there's a twang about it a want of juniper however, I hope we shall have better luck this time. Of course, you know we sail to-morrow?" "I presume so, by the leg of mutton coming on board." "True true I'm regular as clock-work. After being twenty years a first-lieutenant, one gets a little method I like regularity.
One cannot speak of the details of the system for fear of saying something which should not be told; but it is stupendous in its proportion, dealing as it does with the methodical handling of the men in their hundreds of thousands, of all their equipment and supplies, food, miscellaneous baggage and ammunition, and with the endless trains of guns guns guns, and shells, by millions upon millions, all brought from England, and all here in their place, or moved from place to place with the rhythm of clock-work.
The woolly tongue of the monster suggested fresh horrors to her, and if Margarita had listened, she might have had fair excuses to forget her lover's condition; but her voice only did service like a piece of clock-work, and her mind was in the prison with Farina.
The observing hour over, the clock-work stops, the paper is examined, and the result recorded carefully.
"Well," returned Tims with deliberation, pulling on a pair of thread gloves, "I dare say he could teach Norton-Smith a thing or two. Mind you, I'm not talking spiritualistic rot; I'm talking scientific facts, which every one knows except the English scientific men, who keep on clapping their glass to the blind eye like a lot of clock-work Nelsons.
It still further reduced her towards unvarnished simplicity in her manner to him. The silence was broken only by the ticking of the clock-work which gave diurnal motion to the instrument. The stars moved on, the end of the telescope followed, but their tongues stood still. To expect that he was ever voluntarily going to end the pause by speech was apparently futile. She laid her hand upon his arm.
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