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It did not take up a great deal of room, for he did not take the case of the clock, but only the face and the works and the two weights, which last he packed carefully and securely in the box, one on each side of the clock itself. "When we got to Havre, all our baggage was examined at the Custom House, and the officers allowed it all to pass.
At last: "I paced the floor and watched the clock," he said. How terrible! How much easier to take a sword and head a charge! How much simpler to lead men to death than to send them!
After dinner they played games, and cracked nuts, and roasted apples, until the clock struck nine; then Bertie got up to go. "Off, are you?" said the doctor, looking up from his paper. "Well, I'll expect you on Monday, remember." "Yes, sir," said Bertie happily. He was not likely to forget. As he went out Amy came through the hall with a red sled. "Here is William John's present.
And with the thought came the idea of his duty, implied in her father's dying trust: 'Give her time! . . . Let her choose! For him the clock seemed to have stopped for two whole years, and he was back at the time when the guardianship of his boy life was beginning to yield to the larger and more selfish guardianship of manhood.
He had brought a small telescope to that point to be tested, for exactly eight miles away was a church-tower with a clock, and he wished to see if he could tell the time by it. Miriam was about to avoid him, but he recognised her and beckoned to her. "Ah! Mrs. Farrow, is it you? Would yon like to look through my glass?" He adjusted it for her, and she saw the hour quite plainly.
His mother had not seen it! She was looking intently at her clock which stood on the mantelpiece, and the embarrassment increased in midst of a dead silence. Turning her wrinkled face towards her daughter, the old woman, in whose eyes gleamed malice, said: "On Monday you must take me away from here, so that I can see your little girl. I want so much to see her."
His muscles felt wrong as he began dressing, but the feeling wore away. The clock said that less than two hours had passed. If she'd put a drug in the coffee, it must have been one to which he was less sensitive than the average. She'd probably never suspected that he would waken.
But she did not show herself any more; she remained there behind the curtain, which quivered tremulously now and then. And Renardet, his fingers clutching the clothes, squeezed them as he had squeezed the throat of little Louise Roque. He heard the clock striking the hours, and in the stillness the pendulum kept ticking in time with the loud beating of his heart.
When Don Pedro returned, the house recovered its normality of a quiet and well-regulated clock. Doña Cinta, after many consultations, had come to believe his collaboration indispensable.
On the top of the clock, the brass eagle with outspread wings might scratch her, and there was not space to conceal her. At length he concluded wrapped her in a piece of paper, and placed her on the top of the chintz tester of his bed, where there was just room between it and the ceiling: that would serve till he bore her to some better sanctuary.
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