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Updated: May 19, 2025
One of these, tall, well-dressed, with a Jewish face, and a sparkling pin in his brilliant blue scarf, is Alphonse Poiseau, the son of Monsieur Poiseau of the large clockmaker's and jeweler's shop at the corner of the place next the church: the other is Nicolas Marais, a handsome, gypsy-looking fellow with no decided occupation.
What on airth is a-goin' to happen now? Well, wonders will never cease. It raised my dander; at last says I, 'Now, mother, don't say that 'ere any more for gracious sake, for it makes me feel ugly, and I'll get up as airly as any on you, and so I did, and I soon found what's worth knowin' in this life An airly start makes easy stages." No. The Clockmaker's Opinion of Halifax.
"They didn't seem to think so downstairs," was the clockmaker's laconic retort. "Oh, I didn't do much of anything, honest I didn't, Mr. McPhearson. I just happened along at the right time or, perhaps at the wrong," explained the boy with an embarrassed laugh.
I conceit he must have had a tempestical time of it, for she had get her Ebenezer up, and looked like a proper sneezer. Make her Johnny a farmer, eh! I guess that was too much for the like o' her to stomach. No. The White Nigger. One of the most amiable, and at the same time most amusing traits, in the Clockmaker's character, was the attachment and kindness with which he regarded his horse.
Indeed, the whole world in his eyes was condensed into this old clockmaker's house, and he passed all his time near the young girl, when he left her father's workshop, after his work was over. Old Scholastique saw all this, but said nothing. Her loquacity exhausted itself in preference on the evils of the times, and the little worries of the household. Nobody tried to stop its course.
A tendency to illustrate Grimm's law in the interchange of his consonants betrayed the clockmaker's nationality, but he was evidently used to speaking English, or at least the particular branch of the vernacular with which the Bunner sisters were familiar. "I don't like to led any clock go out of my store without being sure it gives satisfaction," he added.
He, however, agreed to lend Kay a smith and watch-tool maker to do the heavier part of the engine, and Kay undertook to make the clockmaker's part of it.
He was "a tall, ungainly, uncouth man," in her opinion, "with great physical strength, a quick penetrating eye, a confident manner, and a disagreeable tone and pronunciation." In no place does he make anyone praise his voice, and, as he said, it reminded one Spanish woman of a German clockmaker's. But Borrow was not happy or at ease.
None of those with whom he journeyed suspected Malcolm to be aught but what he professed himself a craftsman who had served his time at a clockmaker's in Nuremberg, and who was on his way to seek for employment in Vienna.
So genuine was the regret in the clockmaker's tone that Christopher hastened to add: "Oh, it's all right, Mr. McPhearson. Please don't think of it again. I oughtn't to have mentioned it. It doesn't really matter, you know." Still his companion was not satisfied. "We might go back," suggested he. "No, no! It will make you late at the store.
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