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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Oh, how willingly I will do that!" said Salome, earnestly. A bell had been ringing for a few moments; and so the abbess arose and said: "That is the dinner-bell. You promised to join us in the refectory, and I think it is best you should do so, my daughter."
About noon they became hungry, but hunger was an old foe whom they had been well trained to defy, so they worked on utterly regardless of him. Thereafter a welcome sound was heard the dinner-bell! From the first this worthy couple, who were childless, received the boys into their home as sons, and on all occasions treated them as such.
"They left at eight o'clock, sir." Mr. Buxton's attention was attracted to these two gentlemen. "Go and find out where they came from," he said, "and let me know after dinner." The man bowed and left the room, and almost immediately the dinner-bell rang.
"Cousin Helen will be worn out. Run away, all of you, and don't come near this door again till the clock strikes four. Do you hear, chicks? Run run! Shoo! shoo!" The children scuttled away like a brood of fowls all but Katy. "Oh, Papa, I'll be so quiet!" she pleaded. "Mightn't I stay just till the dinner-bell rings?" "Do let her!" said Cousin Helen, so Papa said "Yes."
At 12 o'clock, the dinner-bell rings; but parties working at a considerable distance from the prison, are allowed to leave off work a quarter or half an hour earlier, according to the distance they have to walk to the prison. When grace after dinner for which meal one hour seems to be allowed is said, they are again permitted to assemble outside from 1 P.M., till resuming work.
Since he had resolved to settle in the village for some time, he had rented a small office in the hotel, which he had transformed into a study, and there he spent most of his waking time at work. On this particular day he had gone to his den immediately after luncheon, and had grown so absorbed in his labours that the dinner-bell had sounded unheard.
'Only, and the tears filled her eyes, and she spoke with almost childish simplicity of manner, 'I can't bear them to vex him. I wish Philip would let papa settle it alone. Guy will be angry, and grieved afterwards. They were interrupted by the dinner-bell, but Amy ran into her own room for one moment. 'I said I would learn to bear, said she to herself, 'or I shall never be fit for him.
Never specially cherished while he tarried with us, he had yet contrived to build himself a particular niche of his own. Sunrise and sunset, and the dinner-bell, and the sudden rainbow, and lessons, and Leotard, and the moon through the nursery windows they were all part of the great order of things, and the displacement of any one item seemed to disorganize the whole machinery.
Being wealthy, his kindness had been of great service to both boys, inspiring them with self-respect, and encouraging them to persevere in their efforts to raise themselves to a higher position. The dinner-bell rang just as the boys had finished their discussion, and they went down and took places at the table. Soon Miss Peyton came sailing in, shaking her ringlets coquettishly.
It was Alice who had substituted this contrivance for the brass "dinner-bell" in use throughout her childhood; and neither she nor the others of her family realized that the substitution of sweeter sounds had made the life of that household more difficult.
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