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"Dearest children," she added, disappearing with an impulsive gesture, as if she forced herself to draw the curtain upon a scene which she refused all temptation to interrupt. At a quarter-past three in the afternoon of the following Saturday Ralph Denham sat on the bank of the lake in Kew Gardens, dividing the dial-plate of his watch into sections with his forefinger.
"Like one who from some desert shore Does home's green isles descry, And, vainly longing, gazes o'er The waste of wave and sky, "So, from the desert of my fate, Gaze I across the past; And still upon life's dial-plate The shade is backward cast "I've wandered wide from shore to shore, I've knelt at many a shrine, And bowed me to the rocky floor Where Bethlehem's tapers shine;
Just below the cornice are inscribed the names of the principal cities in the world, and over the middle arch there is a clock, which on an opposite dial-plate marks the direction of the wind out of doors. The hall is lighted from the roof the ceiling is covered with fine paintings, or as they are styled "monochrane drawings." Europe, Asia, Africa, and America are represented in groups.
Stolid, undeniable matter was, peering phlegmatically between its wrinkled eyelids. But admitting that now, at last, we have lighted upon the genuine and authentic Doctor Glyphic, why should the sight of him so oddly affect Balder Helwyse, whose avowed object in pulling off the dial-plate had been to justify a suspicion that Uncle Hiero was behind it?
The bustle of the day had thoroughly wound up the spirit, and every stroke upon the dial-plate of wit was true to the genius of the hour. The wallet of diurnal anecdote was full, and craved unloading. The great meal that vulgar first love of the appetite was over, and one now only flattered it into coquetting with another.
On the loftiest of the gentle hills which diversify the surface of the park is Greenwich Observatory. I used to regulate my watch by the broad dial-plate against the Observatory wall, and felt it pleasant to be standing at the very centre of time and space. The English character is by no means a lofty one, and yet an observer has a sense of natural kindness towards them in the lump.
Thinks I to myself, old lady, it's a pity you couldn't be changed eend for eend then, as some folks do their stockings; it would improve the look of your dial-plate amazin'ly then, that's a fact. "Now there was human natur', Squire," said the Clockmaker, "there was pride even in that hovel.
Somers repeatedly forgot to borrow for her the botanical books which she wanted: this was too small a service for her to remember. She was provoked at last by Emilie's reiterated requests, and vexed by her own forgetfulness; so that Mlle. de Coulanges at last determined not to run the risk of offending, and she reluctantly laid aside her dial-plate.
"I wish't you'd call me Cousin Copernicus," said Droop, appealingly. Phoebe ran up very close to a large steel dial-plate covered with figures. "Now what the land is this for?" she exclaimed. "Thet," said Droop, slowly, "is an indicator of height above ground and tells yer direction." "And what d'ye do with this little handle?"
And although it is not among the instincts wild or domestic of the cat tribe to play at cards, feline from sole to crown was Mr Carker the Manager, as he basked in the strip of summer-light and warmth that shone upon his table and the ground as if they were a crooked dial-plate, and himself the only figure on it.
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