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Updated: May 22, 2025
Then she went to the dining-room and kitchen, and changed those clocks to correspond. The library clock was harder to manage, for it was a cuckoo-clock, and she had to stand on a table to reach it. But Patty was a determined little girl, and having set out to fool the family she was not to be baffled by small obstacles. Then she went up to the second floor and into her Aunt Hester's room.
The picture is better, perhaps, than the bricks were, yet it is not enlivening. The only other objects in the room worth mentioning are, a particularly small book-shelf in a corner; a cuckoo-clock on the mantel-shelf, an engraved portrait of Queen Victoria on the wall opposite in a gilt frame, and a portrait of Sir Robert Peel in a frame of rosewood beside it.
'I know, because I went to the shop Friday morning on pretence of asking for a cuckoo-clock. 'But a marine-dealer doesn't sell clocks, put in the Parnass's wife timidly. It was her first contribution to the conversation, for she was overpowered by her husband's greatness. 'Don't be silly, Hannah! said the Parnass. 'That was just why Mrs. Mendel asked for it.
The girl easily found the cause of his hesitation. "Will you never forget that I am wealthy?" replied she. "The one would bring in the most money," he returned, "and the other most credit." "Then accept the offer of M. Gandelu." The old cuckoo-clock in the corner struck five.
A shaded walk, with a glimpse of sea beyond, embowering trees, a stretch of lawn on one side, and on the other the dormer windows of a fine old house half hidden by scaffolding, from which there came now and then the quick strokes of a workman's hammer. It was half-past four, if the sharp little note of a cuckoo-clock, snapping out one, told the time correctly.
All that I ever see of him is the top of his unhealthy-looking little nose, peeping out from his basket or from your muff, and I occasionally hear his wheezy little bark when you take him for a walk up and down the corridor. You can't expect one to get extravagantly fond of a dog of that sort. One might as well work up an affection for the cuckoo in a cuckoo-clock."
Something like a rattlesnake suddenly went off with a whirr, and his head, jerking up, collided with the piano. It was only the cuckoo-clock, which now, having cleared its throat as was its custom before striking, proceeded to cuck eleven times in rapid succession before subsiding with another rattle: but to Sam it sounded like the end of the world.
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